Serge Kior is a seasoned development team lead and hands-on engineer with over 20 years of experience designing, building and supporting complex hardware-software systems and 11 years of focused software experience. He has led and scaled engineering teams from small startups to organizations of 60+ engineers, served as CTO/director of innovation, and now drives delivery at OZON.ru while continuing to write production code. Serge blends deep technical craft—programming since age 12 and recent Golang work—with practical project and product leadership using a variety of agile and lean techniques. He has a track record of founding product lines (including an intelligent power distribution control system), coaching engineers, and navigating both technical and organizational scaling challenges. Based in Hong Kong with Russian roots, he brings a pragmatic, exploratory mindset—“tech guy who loves to do things”—that favors rapid learning and getting things into users’ hands.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Engineer's degree at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)
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