Ilya Kisil
Head Of SRE at Blockchain.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIlya Kisil is a Head of SRE based in London with nine years of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure for Blockchain.com, where he progressed from SRE to Head of SRE within a few years. He blends a strong academic background—PhD and Master's studies at Imperial College London and advanced robotics/automation training from ITMO—with hands-on expertise in data engineering and site reliability. Known for rapidly adopting and integrating new technologies, he focuses on improving operational efficiency and data-driven observability across large distributed systems. His career path shows a rare combination of deep research training and practical production engineering, having moved between data engineering, SRE leadership, and early mechanical/technical roles.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Processing at Imperial College LondonMaster of Science - MS Information technologies of robotics control, Master of Science - MS Information technologies of robotics control at ITMO University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
2,548reputation
258kreached
59answers
4questions
amazon-web-services
top-5%
Github Skills (59)
toolbox10
decomposition10
overleaf10
pdf10
mlp10
latex10
xelatex10
fuzzy-logic10
tex10
amazon-web-services9
job-application9
sharelatex9
resume9
version-control8
ssh8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hottbox/hottbox
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
HOTTBOX: Higher Order Tensors ToolBOX.
Contributions:6 releases, 182 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 10 months
mlptoolboxfuzzy-logictensorflowhigher-order
IlyaKisil/dpm-coursework
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
:orange_book: Materials for EE4-13 Adaptive Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence (2019-2020)
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 2 months
signalorangedeep-learningadaptivemachine-learning
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