About

CTO at Aura X Capital, an RWA-in-DeFi platform. Platform and DevOps engineer — Kubernetes and AWS, 17 years in IT, 9 of them running Kubernetes in production.

I build the layer other engineers deploy on: CI/CD that no one has to wait for, infrastructure described as code, and enough observability that an incident is a question with an answer instead of a guess. Day to day that means SLO and SLI design, incident response, post-mortems, and dashboards built on the four golden signals.

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CTO at Aura X Capital since July 2024. The platform’s flagship line is RWA in DeFi — liquidity vaults for tokenized real-world-asset funds from Centrifuge: deJAAA (AAA-rated CLOs), deJTRSY (short-term US Treasuries) and deHYB (high-yield corporate bonds), with subscription and redemption in USDC (announcement). I own the architecture end to end: how the on-chain side meets the backend, how the system holds up as load grows, FinOps and the unit economics of the cloud bill, security and access boundaries, and the engineering process across roughly 20 services. In execution that came out as an AWS baseline built from an empty account — EKS, Terraform, FluxCD, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki — reusable GitHub Actions workflows shared by those services, and CDNN, a custom CDN I designed so the platform stays reachable in regions where third-party CDNs are blocked. The company reports 350,000+ users, 60,000 MAU and 1.2B+ transactions in its investor deck.

GlobalDots since 2022 — DevOps as a service for clients in FinTech, AI security and the public sector. CI/CD platforms for 100+ microservices, observability stacks, GitOps with the Argo family. On AWS engagements I owned the work from scope to delivery, including Well-Architected reviews and MORA/MODA assessments.

Simplinic (2019–2022), lead DevOps engineer on an IoT platform tracking 10,000+ assets across 15 hospitals.

PRGate — policy-aware AI code review for GitHub pull requests, built solo in 2026: review skills, an eval suite that runs as a CI gate, and anti-hallucination guardrails that require file-and-line evidence before a finding is published. Closed source, no public repository.

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I review other engineers’ work as a jury member and technical reviewer:

  • Globee Awards — judge
  • Major League Hacking — hackathon judge, 2020–2021
  • Digital Breakthrough (Цифровой прорыв) — expert jury
  • IT INNOHACK — expert

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

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Published on Medium, Habr, HackerNoon and DZone. Some that people still write to me about:

More in my Digital Garden, a public knowledge base on AI, DevOps and engineering practice.

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

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“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

“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)

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