Kirill Izotov
Senior Software Engineer at LimaCharlie
Diemen, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Izotov is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, automation platforms, and DevOps tooling across security and observability domains. Currently at LimaCharlie and previously at SentinelOne and Scalyr, he has repeatedly delivered production-grade services and improvements to installation and authentication flows. Kirill contributed significantly to the popular open-source StackStorm project—fixing core API and execution filters, adding announcements, and improving documentation and ChatOps install guides—demonstrating both deep system knowledge and attention to developer experience. Trained in computer and information systems security at TUSUR, he brings a security-minded approach to platform engineering and a knack for turning operational complexity into reliable, well-documented workflows.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Specialist, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR)
Github Skills (22)
python10
apidoc10
sphinx10
api10
installer10
postinstall10
devops10
installers10
documentation10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
automations8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2docs
Feb 2016 - May 2017
StackStorm Documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:17 commits, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily focused on improving the documentation for the StackStorm project. Their commits included fixing links, adding installation instructions for ChatOps using Debian packages, changing default user configurations within installation guides, and adding steps to reload rules during ChatOps setup. Furthermore, the user added support for API keys in the st2client and implemented a universal version picker with a version warning in the documentation theme.
stackstorm
StackStorm/st2
May 2014 - Sep 2018
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 194 commits, 172 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily contributed to the API and core functionality of the StackStorm platform. Their work focused on improving filters for action executions, including fixing bugs related to incorrect field references and speeding up aggregation. They also implemented announcements, a new feature within the system, and updated documentation for the web UI, demonstrating contributions across API, core system logic, and user interface. Additionally, they made changes to the installation process and the authentication system.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
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