Kirill Grishin is a hands-on engineering leader and technical architect with 13 years of experience building and operating high-availability B2B SaaS in Japan, currently owning engineering, architecture, infrastructure and operations for GMO TrustLogin at GlobalSign. He has driven the product from zero to hundreds of millions JPY in ARR while maintaining 99.99%+ availability and passing rigorous ISO and penetration testing requirements. Kirill combines deep technical execution—designing systems, modernizing AWS infra with Terraform, and migrating monoliths to microservices—with people leadership: hiring, goal-setting, and sustaining fast, quality delivery. He’s delivered complex identity features (AD, SCIM, MFA, device auth) and built platform engineering for on-demand test environments, reflecting a pragmatic focus on measurable business impact. Fluent in English, Japanese and Russian and based in Chiyoda, he frequently bridges security/compliance and product teams and is actively driving practical AI-assisted development adoption rather than hype.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, With honors, Bachelor's degree, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, With honors at Sakhalin State University
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Kirill Grishin - Engineering Manager at GlobalSign