Kirill Zhukov
Sr Software Engineer, Android & IOS (Bitkey - Hardware Wallet) at Block
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Zhukov is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience building Android and iOS products, currently focused on Bitkey hardware wallet development at Block in San Francisco. He has a strong mobile engineering pedigree across payments and crypto initiatives, previously driving Android work for Cash App, Square POS, and Evernote. Kirill blends deep technical foundations from MIPT with hands-on QA and automation roots, which informs his focus on reliability and secure client-side systems. His current work sits at the intersection of mobile UX and hardware security, shipping production-grade firmware-integrated mobile apps. Based in the Bay Area, he maintains a concise public footprint (bitkey.world) that reflects an emphasis on product-focused, privacy-first solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who elevates quality through test-driven practices and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Foothill CollegeMathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Github Skills (200)
testing10
state-machine10
property-testing10
linter10
gradle-plugin10
reactive10
mocks10
sql10
kotlin-multiplatform10
swift10
js10
assertion10
jvm10
awt10
compiler-plugin10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kirillzh/kotest-playground
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Example of Kotlin multiplatform project
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
kotlinkotlin-multiplatformkotlin-jvmmultiplatform
kirillzh/hermit-packages
Apr 2022 - Feb 2026
Hermit manages isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects.
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 10 months
hermitbootstrappingisolated
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