Anton Kirilov is a Core Platform Solutions Architect in Sofia with six years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms for large enterprises like The World Bank and The Coca-Cola Company. He blends deep Windows/virtualization operational expertise with Azure cloud architecture and governance, focusing on secure, scalable, and automated delivery pipelines. Anton has a strong systems background from roles at HPE and DXC, where he led incident response, audits, and performance tuning for complex infrastructures. He also contributes to low-level open-source work—adding AArch64 SIMD support to the high-profile wasmtime WebAssembly runtime—demonstrating uncommon comfort from firmware-level codegen to cloud governance. Holding a Master’s in Computer Science, he pairs formal training with pragmatic cross-team collaboration and process-driven delivery. Known for turning operational constraints into repeatable architectures, he emphasizes automation and compliance to accelerate safe rollout of new services.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Bachelor’s Degree, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication at South West University
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
A lightweight WebAssembly runtime that is fast, secure, and standards-compliant
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:173 reviews, 61 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the AArch64 code generation backend for the wasmtime project, focusing on implementing and enabling SIMD operations. Their work involved adding support for vector element extensions, floating-point comparisons, arithmetic, and various instructions related to SIMD operations, including `VecLoadReplicate`, and `SqmulRoundSat`, as well as improving the handling of callee-saved registers. They also made significant improvements to the Popcnt implementation.
Standalone JIT-style runtime for WebAssembly, using Cranelift
Contributions:1 PR, 198 pushes, 119 branches in 3 years 1 month
jitwebassembly
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