Kirill Shilov
Founder And CEO at ALPIREUM
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Shilov is a founder and CEO with nine years of hands-on experience building aerospace-grade autonomous systems, leading Sky-Drones and the next-generation Alpireum to deliver AI-powered drone avionics, cloud fleet control, and enterprise mission platforms. Trained in flight dynamics, control systems and applied math (MIPT, ETH Zürich) and a CRDF Global/MIT Sloan program alumnus, he blends rigorous research background with product and manufacturing execution across Switzerland, Japan and the UK. A drone pioneer and former flight-control engineer at ACSL and Perspective Robotics, he pairs prototype-to-production engineering with commercial strategy and international customer deployments. He contributes technical documentation to the ArduPilot ecosystem, linking his hardware designs to open-source operational guidance. Currently based in London and a Tech Nation fellow, he is also a private pilot license candidate, reflecting a practitioner’s curiosity about operational aviation as well as autonomy.
9 years of coding experience
CRDF Global Commercialization Pathfinder Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, CRDF Global Commercialization Pathfinder Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster's degree Flight Dynamics and Control, Master's degree Flight Dynamics and Control at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Master of Science - MS Control systems, Master of Science - MS Control systems at ETH Zürich
English, German
Github Skills (5)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
technical-writing10
autopilot9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Repository for ArduPilot wiki issues and wiki-specific website infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily contributed to the project by adding and updating documentation related to Sky-Drones hardware and features. This included creating documentation for the SmartAP PDB, adding Sky-Drones to the stores list, updating information on SmartLink, and adding hardware descriptions for AIRLink. These contributions aimed to provide comprehensive information on integrating and utilizing specific hardware components within the ArduPilot ecosystem.
ardupilotinfrastructuretiddlywiki5autopilotwiki
aviaks/Firmware
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
PX4 Autopilot Software
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 9 months
raspberry-pipx4-autopilotautopilotpx4mavlink
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