Summary
Kirill Popov is a deployment engineer with 12 years’ experience building and automating Linux-based infrastructure, specializing in Debian, SLES, CentOS and Ubuntu in cloud and QA environments. He combines deep system administration skills—networking, virtualization (XEN), and Cisco hardware—with continuous integration and deployment automation practiced at Grid Dynamics. His background includes managing production services (web, DNS, mail, monitoring, version control, SIP) and running HA virtual clusters at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University. Comfortable across on-prem and cloud stacks, he excels at turning complex operational requirements into repeatable, automated pipelines. Based in Saint Petersburg, he brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach informed by both academic training in computer science and years of customer-facing troubleshooting.
12 years of coding experience
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Russian, English