About

CTO at Aura X Capital. Before that, 9 years building CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms for 100+ microservices at GlobalDots clients.

17 years in IT. 9+ deep in Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD. I focus on developer experience, self-service platforms, and observability. Day to day that includes SLO/SLI design, incident response, post-mortems, and 4 Golden Signals dashboards.

CTO at Aura X Capital since July 2024. DeFi platform: 350k+ users, 60k MAU, 1.2B+ transactions. I own the technology side end to end: architecture, hiring and engineering practices, infrastructure budget. Built the AWS baseline from scratch (EKS, Terraform, FluxCD, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki) with reusable GitHub Actions workflows shared by ~20 services, and designed CDNN, a custom CDN the platform uses to stay reachable in regions where third-party CDNs are blocked.

Previously at GlobalDots — DevOps as a Service across FinTech, AI Security, and Government. CI/CD platforms for 100+ microservices, observability stacks, GitOps with the Argo family. On the AWS side I owned projects from business case to delivery: Scope of Work, AWS Well-Architected reviews, MORA/MODA assessments. All of it inside an official AWS Partner, where my client migrations qualified for AWS partner funding.

Open Source Link to heading

PRGate — AI-powered, policy-aware code review for GitHub pull requests
Digital Garden — public knowledge base on AI, DevOps, and engineering practices

Book & Technical Review Link to heading

Kubernetes Cookbook — co-authored, 171 pages. Also on Ridero
Technical Reviewer — Cracking the Kubernetes Interview (Packt, 2025)

Certifications Link to heading

CKA (CNCF, 2021) · AWS Solutions Architect Associate (valid through 2028) · Google Professional Cloud Architect (valid through 2027) · GitOps Fundamentals (Codefresh)

Speaking & Teaching Link to heading

500+ students as instructor at OTUS and SkillFactory. Selected talks:

Chaos Engineering for Reliability — Kubernetes Platform
Pulumi vs Terraform: Scratch to Production — GlobalDots webinar
Gateway API vs Ingress — OTUS CONF 2024
Pulumi and CDK for Terraform — DevOops 2021

Writing Link to heading

Published on Medium, Habr, HackerNoon, DZone. Highlights:

Warm-Up Kubernetes Node: 3GB image, hours → seconds
10 Steps to Troubleshoot ArgoCD — GlobalDots eBook
I Thought I Had Observability — a short DNS story
Tips to Pass CKA Exam
Production Ready: 4 questions before you write the checklist — Habr, 4,400+ reads; a VP at Deutsche Bank used it to prepare a large-project migration study

What Colleagues Say Link to heading

“Kirill played an essential role in the platform’s development and contributed to our common victory, namely winning this prestigious industry award.”
— Steffen Geyer, Founder & CEO, Simplinic GmbH, on the Eugen Münch Prize for the IoT platform tracking 10,000+ assets across 15 hospitals

“Kirill impressed our team not only with his extensive expertise, but with his exceedingly impressive dedication. […] With these innovations Kirill reduced our company costs by 10% and improved our web app time to respond by 12%.”
— Dmitry Pavlov, Head of Engineering, Genestack (ex-Simplinic)