Summary
Kirill Bykov is a Staff Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building resilient, cloud-native backend systems and leading large migrations from legacy .NET to modern .NET Core architectures. He has driven multi-cloud messaging platforms and consolidated acquired ecosystems at scale, and previously served as a de-facto architect at Dell where his designs prevented revenue loss and kept customer-facing platforms running incident-free. As CTO and co-founder of a startup he crafted highly maintainable systems and continues to blend hands-on engineering with technical leadership. Currently at Rev, he focuses on transcription and captioning infrastructure while also teaching at HSE, reflecting a commitment to both production excellence and knowledge transfer. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he brings a pragmatic architect’s eye to performance, testing, and service virtualization, and is known for turning high-risk problems into stable, long-running solutions.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
none, Computer science, none, Computer science at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
English, Russian