Kirill Keller
Head of Platform Engineering & Infrastructure
Summary
Director of Engineering and Operations leading 40+ engineers across platform engineering and operations for a regulated, multi-cloud product serving 21+ countries. Built delivery and run operations for AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and on-prem environments while supporting PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA requirements and passing 5+ audit frameworks. Aligns executive priorities with architecture, release planning, incident response, and availability outcomes across distributed teams.
Overview
3
3
Languages
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering and Operations
InCountry
09.2019 - 07.2026
- Joined InCountry as DevOps Lead when the product was closer to a thesis than a data residency platform. Promoted several times, ultimately owning both halves of the technical organization. Took the platform from MVP to 20+ countries and dozens of enterprise customers at 99.9% SLA.
- Team: 40 engineers, 7 direct reports across Platform Engineering (4 product teams + Lead Architect) and Operations (DevOps, DBA, Monitoring, 24/7 NOC/SOC/SRE)
- Infrastructure: 200+ VMs across 5 environments, 500TB+ of PII under management
- Stack: AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Yandex Cloud, HashiCorp (Nomad, Consul, Vault), Terraform, Ansible, EFK, Grafana, JumpCloud, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Nginx, ModSecurity, Splunk, Python
- Growth: first paying customers, fast geo expansion, first multi-cloud deployments, platform redesigns for load and market fit.
- Delivery: unified pipelines across public clouds, regional providers and on-prem — one pipeline, many regulatory and deployment layouts.
- Compliance: cleared external audits for the technical org (PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, China MLPS, 152-FZ) — evidence collection, auditor-facing narrative, remediation.
- Security: a continuous line, not a one-time audit event — ongoing design reviews, hardening baselines, vulnerability management.
- Strategic customers: principal technical contact for Fortune 500 accounts and for partnership integrations with Salesforce, Auth providers and AI. Led a complex integration program with Alibaba Cloud.
- Executive communication: turning "data in China by Q1 2025" or "can we deploy on AWS Outposts?" into costs, timelines and decisions for C-level stakeholders.
- Process ownership: product roadmap, release timelines, change management, incident and problem management, access, capacity, availability, etc
- Remote & Distributed Team Management: Led engineers from Thai to Portugal — hiring and structuring teams for the long run. Every engineer clear on what they own and why.
Technical Project Manager
Segmento
07.2016 - 12.2019
- Owned end-to-end delivery of internal technical projects across the Segmento and RuTarget platforms — the first Russian adtech company acquired by Sberbank and delivered new edge adtech solutions leveraging the capabilities of this partnership.
Technical Manager
STC ARGUS
07.2015 - 07.2016
- Owned the end-to-end design, development, and technical delivery of a carrier-grade OSS platform for Russia’s largest telecom provider - a unified Network Resource Inventory (NRI) system that serves as a "digital twin" for their entire physical and logical network infrastructure, managing over 500 million objects and supporting 60,000+ users.
Project Manager
Yandex
03.2013 - 09.2014
- Managed implementation of Oracle Performance Management (CPM) system at Yandex, one of Russia's largest tech companies.
CPM Consultant
KORUS Consulting
06.2011 - 01.2013
- Led Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) / Hyperion full-cycle on-site integrations — from business requirements analysis and solution design to deployment, user training, and go-live support. Managed projects for clients ranging from mid-market retail chains to large aerospace conglomerates, tailoring Oracle EPM (including Hyperion Planning and Essbase) to each client's unique financial planning and reporting needs.
Project Manager
IT Group
06.2008 - 07.2011
- Led the end-to-end development of a custom accounting management platform or a major Russian energy company. Operated as a full-stack "one-man army": analyst, PM, director, QA, DBA, developer, sysadmin and support line.
Education
Skills
Security architecture design
Cloud infrastructure
Infrastructure as code
CI/CD pipelines
Observability & monitoring
Enterprise architecture
Service mesh
Strategic roadmaps
Executive-level communication
Program governance
Budget planning
Risk management
Incident response
Problem management
Disaster recovery planning
Availability management
Vulnerability management
Capacity forecasting
Chaos engineering
Disaster recovery testing
Timeline
Director of Engineering and Operations - InCountry
09.2019 - 07.2026
Technical Project Manager - Segmento
07.2016 - 12.2019
Technical Manager - STC ARGUS
07.2015 - 07.2016
Project Manager - Yandex
03.2013 - 09.2014
CPM Consultant - KORUS Consulting
06.2011 - 01.2013
Project Manager - IT Group
06.2008 - 07.2011
Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University - ,