Summary
Kirill Davydychev is a Principal Storage Solutions Architect with 14 years of experience designing and optimizing block storage, virtualization, and systems performance for enterprise and cloud environments. Currently at AWS after leading storage and performance engineering efforts at Cloudian and Nexenta, he blends deep hardware knowledge with software-driven storage strategies to solve high-throughput, low-latency problems. He’s equally comfortable in customer-facing technical roles and hands-on performance tuning, having moved from Tier 2/3 support into architecture and product-focused positions. Based in Rosenberg, Texas, Kirill leverages a physics background from Georgia Tech to bring analytical rigor to complex storage system trade-offs, often surfacing non-obvious bottlenecks that improve real-world reliability and scalability.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Clements High School
English, Russian, German