Kirill Starkov
Senior Developer Data Scientist
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Starkov is a Senior Developer and Data Scientist with nine years of experience building production-grade ML and software systems, currently working on LLM development, agent tooling, and self-hosted AI infrastructure at Refact.ai while also contributing at DSSL. He combines hands-on model adaptation (including porting bigcode/Starcoder2 to Amazon Neuron) with DevOps and integration work—migrating services to Kubernetes and delivering Refact Enterprise on AWS Marketplace. A proven project lead and recruiter, Kirill bridges research and engineering to ship developer tooling such as a JetBrains plugin and active agent frameworks. Trained with a Master's in Computer Science from the Higher School of Economics, he thrives on practical solutions that enable self-hosting and enterprise deployment of cutting-edge language models.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master, Master's degree, Computer Science, Master at Higher School of Economics
Github Skills (178)
chat10
compression10
refactoring10
cpp10
ai-agent10
devtools10
fine-tuning10
developer-tools10
cpp-library10
nvidia10
agent10
vscode10
cuda10
open-source10
inference10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smallcloudai/refact-intellij
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Refact AI: Open-source AI Code assistant with autocompletion, chat, refactoring and more for IntelliJ JetBrains IDEs
Contributions:10 reviews, 109 PRs, 305 pushes in 2 years
reymondzzzz/semantic_segmentation
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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