Kirill Smirenko
Technical Product Manager at Nebius
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Smirenko is a Technical Product Manager and founder with 11 years of hands-on engineering and product leadership experience, currently focused on AI cloud observability in Amsterdam. He combines software engineering roots—in embedded systems and mobile—with operational leadership from co-founding and running boutique consulting and startup ventures. At Betoola he led product delivery across fintech domains (transaction monitoring, FX) and built no-code and server platforms, ensuring transparency between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. His open-source work includes implementing timerfd support in the Embox embedded OS, reflecting low-level systems fluency often hidden behind his product titles. Trained in software engineering and entrepreneurship (University of Amsterdam and Saint Petersburg State University), he excels at translating complex technical constraints into pragmatic, auditable product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Saint Petersburg State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Entrepreneurship (joint degree), Master of Science - MS, Entrepreneurship (joint degree) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master of Science - MS, Entrepreneurship (joint degree), Master of Science - MS, Entrepreneurship (joint degree) at University of Amsterdam
English, Russian, Italian, Dutch
Github Skills (9)
c1710
kernel10
embedded10
macos10
posixct10
c1110
posix10
osdev10
microcontroller9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
embox/embox
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Modular and configurable OS for embedded applications
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kirill contributed to the development of timer functionality within the Embox operating system, focusing on the timerfd mechanism. They implemented timerfd-related structures, added the `timerfd_create` function, and integrated the timer into the POSIX compatibility layer. Furthermore, the user refactored and enhanced existing timer tests, demonstrating their proficiency in integrating new features and writing test cases.
kernelposixconfigurablemicrocontrollerrtos
ksmirenko/flexicards-android
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 65 commits, 53 pushes in 8 months
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