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Hi, I'm Kirill Zonov, a Site Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating highly available systems for fintech, consumer-web and e-commerce platforms. Based in Berlin, I mentor teams and drive initiatives that boost uptime, developer velocity and security. I excel at cloud architectures (AWS, GCP), containers and automation (Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC), and robust observability (Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry). I enjoy leading on-call rotations, performing blameless post-mortems, and delivering measurable outcomes such as rapid autoscaling improvements, cost optimization and TB-scale logging during peak traffic like Black Friday.…Hi, I'm Kirill Zonov, a Site Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating highly available systems for fintech, consumer-web and e-commerce platforms. Based in Berlin, I mentor teams and drive initiatives that boost uptime, developer velocity and security. I excel at cloud architectures (AWS, GCP), containers and automation (Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC), and robust observability (Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry). I enjoy leading on-call rotations, performing blameless post-mortems, and delivering measurable outcomes such as rapid autoscaling improvements, cost optimization and TB-scale logging during peak traffic like Black Friday.

Kirill Zonov

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Hi, I'm Kirill Zonov, a Site Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating highly available systems for fintech, consumer-web and e-commerce platforms. Based in Berlin, I mentor teams and drive initiatives that boost uptime, developer velocity and security. I excel at cloud architectures (AWS, GCP), containers and automation (Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC), and robust observability (Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry). I enjoy leading on-call rotations, performing blameless post-mortems, and delivering measurable outcomes such as rapid autoscaling improvements, cost optimization and TB-scale logging during peak traffic like Black Friday.…Hi, I'm Kirill Zonov, a Site Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating highly available systems for fintech, consumer-web and e-commerce platforms. Based in Berlin, I mentor teams and drive initiatives that boost uptime, developer velocity and security. I excel at cloud architectures (AWS, GCP), containers and automation (Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC), and robust observability (Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry). I enjoy leading on-call rotations, performing blameless post-mortems, and delivering measurable outcomes such as rapid autoscaling improvements, cost optimization and TB-scale logging during peak traffic like Black Friday.

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Hi, I’m Kirill Zonov, a Site Reliability & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating highly available systems for fintech, consumer-web and e-commerce platforms. Based in Berlin, I mentor teams and drive initiatives that boost uptime, developer velocity and security.

I excel at cloud architectures (AWS, GCP), containers and automation (Kubernetes, Terraform, IaC), and robust observability (Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry). I enjoy leading on-call rotations, performing blameless post-mortems, and delivering measurable outcomes such as rapid autoscaling improvements, cost optimization and TB-scale logging during peak traffic like Black Friday.

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Work Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Framer

September 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025

On-call for WAF / ECS fleet powering hundreds of thousands of customer sites. Automated incident tooling, cutting triage time. Shipped infra-heavy product features in Go & TypeScript. Improved autoscaling to react 2x faster.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Trade Republic

June 1, 2024 - June 1, 2024

Hardened Fluent Bit & OpenSearch clusters (K8s + AWS) for burst traffic. Deployed self-hosted Sentry + LGTM, reducing license costs and MTTR. Built Snowflake integration with Apache Airflow for incidents auto-tagging for compliance reporting.

Senior SRE (Contract) at Booking.com

March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023

Maintained global L7/L4 load-balancer stack in a hybrid environment (HAProxy, AWS NLB, on-prem).

Senior DevOps (Contract) at Babbel (Data Engineering)

September 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022

Unified CI/CD pipelines, introduced GitHub Actions, and added security & schema validations for data workflows.

Senior SRE Consultant at Klarna

May 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Led design of a cost-efficient logging platform and acted as interim Tech Lead through production launch. Validated and launched the platform to handle Black-Friday TB-scale logs.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer / Backend Engineer at Babbel

October 1, 2019 - October 1, 2019

Drove monolith-to-microservice migrations. Mentored engineers and ran internal workshops. Wrote IaC and CI/CD pipelines for AWS / GCP. Migrated Babbel from pure EC2 to ECS.

Fullstack / Backend Engineer at Shore

August 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017

Drove monolith-to-microservice migrations of a Ruby on Rails app. Participated in migration from Heroku to K8S.

CTO & Founder at Racoons Group

July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2016

Scaled outsourcing agency from 0→25 employees. Delivered 40+ e-commerce, e-learning & SaaS projects for SMBs and startups. Owned business development, hiring, agile project management and high-level technical architecture.

Full-stack Engineer & System Administrator at Earlier Roles – Kazan

January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2012

Automated internal servers for an outsourcing agency. Delivered full-stack web applications (Ruby, JS) for international clients.