Sergey Kizunov
Chief Technology Officer at SYNCRIVO
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Kizunov is a CTO and data scientist with over 20 years of experience applying AI/ML across embedded systems, manufacturing test, and product analytics, and 11 years in senior engineering leadership roles. He blends hands‑on expertise in Python, C#, and C++ with a track record of designing backend systems and Python infrastructure that became core parts of NI’s SystemLink offerings. Sergey has led applied research into EV battery capacity prediction, waveform anomaly detection, and generative AI/LLM integration for product and productivity improvements. He is a practiced remote leader and mentor who has grown senior engineering talent internationally and authored a patent for ML-driven test optimization. As an active contributor to the SaltStack open-source project, he has fixed critical backend and transport bugs that improved stability for infrastructure automation at scale. Based in the Miami‑Fort Lauderdale area, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with product-focused delivery in both consulting and executive roles.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
tornado10
automation10
automations10
infrastructure10
saltstack10
python10
configuration-management9
zeromq9
manage8
infrastructure-as-code8
cloud-manager8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:163 commits, 129 PRs, 254 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the SaltStack software, concentrating on the backend and infrastructure aspects. Contributions include bug fixes related to TCP transport and opkg package management, addressing issues that caused the software to enter bad states or misbehave. They also worked on fixing reactor emits critical errors, improving the system's time settings, and enhancing code related to core grains and configuration options. Several commits involve improving tests and code related to module loading in the framework.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
ni/salt
Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt Open software package repository here:
Contributions:3 reviews, 118 commits, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
pythonsaltdevopsitilinfrastructure
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