Summary
Kirill Muzykov is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience spanning founder, CTO and senior leadership roles in game and consumer software. He blends hands-on engineering (C++, Unity, C#, mobile stacks and backend systems) with organizational leadership, having built and scaled engineering and QA organizations for Candy Crush Saga across multiple European hubs. Kirill has founded and grown companies, led product development from prototype to live operations, and shipped high-concurrency systems and cross-platform apps — a practitioner comfortable at both low-level code and strategic planning. He prefers autonomous, multidisciplinary teams where engineers wear multiple hats and he actively mentors and hires senior talent. Notably, his background includes authoring technical books and tutorials and delivering complex broadcast and large-event systems early in his career, reflecting a mix of technical authorship and production-grade engineering.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
English, Russian