Summary
Kirill Kazakov is a pragmatic CTO and platform engineer with 17 years in IT and over 9 years focused on DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms, who helps teams ship faster, cut costs, and reduce operational pain. He has built greenfield EKS/Terraform/GitOps stacks and observability for high-scale products—from a DeFi vault handling 1.2B+ on-chain transactions and 350k+ users to enterprise FinTech and AI Security clients. Practical achievements include shaving CI/CD times, lowering infra spend via spot/preemptible nodes and KEDA autoscaling, and shrinking pod startup from hours to seconds for 1,000+ pods. A certified GCP Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect and CKA, he also teaches DevOps to professionals and has 30+ technical publications with six-figure reach. He’s seeking senior platform, DevOps, or SRE roles where reliability, developer experience, and production-scale systems matter. Notably, his node warm-up and caching approaches have been featured in industry outlets and adopted across teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist level (ISCED 5A), Specialist level (ISCED 5A) at Saint Petersburg State University
Английский