Kir 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 Sciences
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Ulyanovsk State Technical University
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