Kirill Zhdanov
Automation Lead
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Zhdanov is an Automation Lead with a decade of experience moving from tester and developer roles into strategic team leadership, currently driving R&D and DevSecOps for a NGFW project in Moscow. He combines hands-on skills (PyTest, Selenium, GitLab CI, IaC, Docker) with delivery-focused leadership—reducing lead time, cutting cost-per-feature, and accelerating time-to-market through automation, AI-driven practices and improved estimation. Kirill designs CI/CD and test architectures, implements traffic balancers and agent-based workflows, and fosters cross-functional collaboration across DevOps, QA, R&D and product teams. Known for instituting QA best practices (verification/validation, test-case prioritization, code-coverage guidance) and for practical innovations like Stop-testing metrics, he consistently translates complex requirements into measurable process improvements. An active conference contributor (BlackHat speaker) and 1a3y founder, he pairs deep engineering craft with a product-minded, metrics-driven approach to quality.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Engineer's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Saint Petersburg University of TelecommunicationsLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
1,073reputation
3.3mreached
49answers
6questions
puppeteer
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
json-schema10
testing10
swagger10
htmx10
port-scanning10
security-automation10
automation10
nike10
openapi10
scanner10
firefox10
api10
codeceptjs10
vagrant10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
storenth/nuclei-templates
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
storenth/lazyrecon
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Wicked sick v2.0 script is intended to automate your reconnaissance process in an organized fashion.
Contributions:509 commits, 1 PR, 241 pushes in 1 year 6 months
security-automationbugbountyreconnaissancevulnerability-scannerarsenal
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