Kristian K
CTO at VM Farms
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian K is a hands-on CTO with 15+ years designing and operating resilient cloud and email infrastructures, currently leading VM Farms’ Operations-as-a-Service platform. He combines a lifelong tinkerer’s curiosity—rooted in a childhood habit of taking things apart—with formal training in physics to build automation-first, self-healing systems that scale for millions of users. Prior roles include lead architect for a 4M+ user email system where he drove filtering, statistical engines, and automated recovery to improve efficiency and deliverability. Comfortable across hardware, networking, backend development and infrastructure logistics, he excels at translating operational pain points into robust architecture and tooling. He’s been part of VM Farms since its inception in 2011, blending product-minded engineering with day-to-day operational leadership. Outside work his hobbies reflect the same systems-thinking—robotics, brewing and curing—informing a pragmatic, experimental approach to engineering.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics and Astronomy, BSc Physics and Astronomy at York University
Github Skills (140)
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conversations9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vmfarms/generate_updateinfo
Dec 2013 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 10 PRs in 8 years 2 months
kostecky/VBT-Barbell-Tracker
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A proof of concept app to optically track a barbell through its range of motion using OpenCV to give the lifter realtime feedback on concentric avg velocity, cutoff velocity, and displacement for a Velocity Based Training program.
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
realtimetrainingweightliftingavgvelocity
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