Kir Burkhanov
Lead Software Engineer at Acquco
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolKir Burkhanov is a Lead Software Engineer based in Dubai with 11 years of experience building production-grade LLM workflows, AI agents, and scalable cloud-native products. He combines hands-on engineering with team and process leadership, having transformed development practices to triple team efficiency and driven a 35x application performance improvement through query and architecture optimizations. A repeat founder and 500 Startups alum, he has scaled SaaS and med-tech products to millions of monthly users and led fundraising-influencing growth engineering. He is fluent in designing DDD microservices, BI systems with 100% metric accuracy, and migrating legacy stacks to Kubernetes and CI/CD. Known for rigorous hiring and mentorship—interviewing 150+ engineers and running individualized development plans—he blends technical depth with people-first leadership. His background spans from CTO and CEO roles to current engineering leadership, reflecting a rare mix of product instincts and operational execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Darmstadt University of Applied SciencesMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Ulyanovsk State Technical University
English, German, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (118)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lastonoga/sinuous-components
May 2020 - May 2020
Component system for Sinuous framework (vue like)
Contributions:95 commits, 109 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
vue
sexy-framework/sexy
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Super fast reactive UI framework with no runtime overhead created to use with SSR 🤙
Contributions:1 release, 209 commits, 132 pushes in 3 months
reactiveui
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