Kirill Proskurin
Head Of DevOps Engineering Department at Behavox
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Proskurin is Head of DevOps Engineering at Behavox with over 16 years of experience designing and operating high‑load, highly available systems and building DevOps culture. He has scaled SRE teams from 3 to 22 while driving trunk‑based development, reliable CI/CD, and hundreds of tested releases on demand. Kirill led design and delivery of large initiatives—centralized cluster management, a microservice property service, a VictoriaMetrics/Loki observability stack, and automation to spin up geo‑distributed 1000+ node clusters. A hands‑on engineer and frequent bug‑fix contributor to the SaltStack project, he blends core infrastructure coding with pragmatic operational leadership. Based in London, he’s known for migrating legacy Ansible fleets to Salt, enabling air‑gapped deployments, and keeping deployment churn and team turnover exceptionally low.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
None Mathematics IT, None Mathematics IT at Voronezh Institute of High Technologies
English, Russian
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
saltstack10
python10
mysql9
devops9
cron8
infrastructure7
automations7
automation7
cloud-manager5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 48 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the reliability of the SaltStack software. Their contributions involved addressing idempotency issues in the `supervisord.dead` state, merging updates, and fixing logic within the cron and mysql modules. Additionally, the user added enhancements to handle empty server versions, contributing to the overall robustness of the system. Further, they implemented a number of build and test related updates to support the development process.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
Oloremo/salt
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here:
Contributions:1 PR, 129 pushes, 31 branches in 3 years 11 months
saltdevopsinfrastructureinfrastructure-managementdocker
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