Summary
Kirils Mensikovs is a seasoned VP and Staff Software Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience building high-load, distributed back-end systems in Java across finance, geospatial, big data and ML domains. He has led technical teams and shipped production-grade platforms—from a seismic geospatial storage and SEGY processing pipeline to real-time pricing and latency-monitoring systems for trading—bridging deep systems design with practical operational improvements. As a founder and former CTO he combines product-minded entrepreneurship with hands-on engineering, having implemented lambda architectures using Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra and Storm and improved test coverage and performance in mission-critical services. Now at JPMorgan Chase, he brings senior technical leadership and a proven track record of turning complex data challenges into scalable, observable systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Sciences, Bachelor, Computer Sciences at Latvijas Universitate
English, Latvian, Russian