Kirill Kazakov
Chief Technology Officer at Aura X Capital
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolKirill 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
Stackoverflow
375reputation
83kreached
7answers
10questions
Github Skills (200)
api10
pipeline10
docker10
letsencrypt9
continuous-delivery9
locking9
docker-build9
kubernetes-cluster9
helm9
golang9
image-editor9
vaapi9
dns-resolver9
reverse-proxy9
k8s9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kksudo/odyssey-docker
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Automated docker image builds for Odyssey (Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler).
Contributions:1 release, 136 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
scalabledocker-imagebuildsdocker-automateddocker
kksudo/kazakov.xyz
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
A personal website, based on the HUGO
Contributions:20 PRs, 56 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 4 months
hugo
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