Summary
Kirill Fedotov is an engineering manager based in Saint Petersburg with eight years of experience building and leading teams in cloud and security-focused products. Currently at Yandex Cloud, he progressed internally from technical lead to engineering manager after prior roles as a senior architect and security engineer, demonstrating a blend of hands-on system design and people leadership. His background spans software development, architecture, and security across companies in Russia and Japan, and he has academic roots in IT and unfinished Ph.D. studies where he taught optics and quantum physics. Known jokingly as a "professional cat herder," Kirill pairs rigorous technical depth with a pragmatic approach to coordinating complex, cross-disciplinary teams.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lyceum #3 of Gatchina
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Unfinished) Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Unfinished) Mathematics and Computer Science at ITMO University
English, Russian, Spanish, Japanese