Kirill Gavrylyuk

CEO

Redmond, Washington, United States24 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in cloud services.
Led Azure Cosmos DB from launch to maturity.
Expert in product strategy and engineering leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with extensive experience in cloud computing and distributed systems.

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Agile MethodologiesSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingDistributed SystemsSoftware Project ManagementSoftware EngineeringScrumSoftware DesignSaaSAgile Project ManagementProgram ManagementSOAManagementC#Technical Product Management

About

We are Hiring awesome product managers and engineers. About me: Product Leader with experience of leading and growing multiple large scale cloud services from inception to maturity. Responsibilities include product strategy, business strategy, product execution, and leading engineering teams to deliver global cloud services. 20 years of experience building cloud services, distributed systems, frameworks & tools. Few highlights: * Vice President for Azure Cosmos DB, lead product and engineering teams, starting with Cosmos DB launch in 2017 * Founder of Azure Mobile Services, led the team from inception. Founding member of Azure Functions * Responsible for multiple other services on Azure including Notification Hubs, App Service Mobile Apps * Product Management Lead on point for Capptain acquisition/integration in Azure, led the Mobile Engagement team through integration * Led the product management team responsible for Windows Communication Foundation Current interests include cloud app platforms, mobility, IoT and big data. Follow me @kirillg_msft, hear about my work at https://channel9.msdn.com/events/speakers/kirill-gavrylyuk

Experience

24 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

24 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

24 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Microsoft

11 roles

Vice President, Azure Cosmos DB

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Lead engineering and product management team for Azure Cosmos DB.

General Manager, Engineering and Product for Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and Citus

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

Director of Product, Azure Cloud Databases (Cosmos DB, Postgres, Postgres Hyperscale - Citus)

Dec 2021 – Aug 2022 · 8 mos

Kirill is responsible for the success of Cloud-native operational databases in Azure. Kirill leads product management teams for Cosmos DB, Database for Postgres, and Postgres Hyperscale-Citus.

Head of Product, Azure Cosmos DB

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Director of Product and Developer Platform Engineering, Azure Cosmos DB

Dec 2019 – Aug 2020 · 8 mos

Leading an awesome group of Product Managers and Engineers working on Azure Cosmos DB, Fast and Open distributed database service for any scale.

Principal Dev Manager

Apr 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Principal Dev Manager at Microsoft, Azure DocumentDB, the planet scale NoSQL database as a service, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/documentdb/

Principal PM Manager

Sep 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, overseeing Azure Mobile Services, Notification Hubs, Azure Mobile Apps, and Mobile Engagement (through integration). Introduced the original idea of app services suite for mobile, and led the Azure Mobile Services product from the inception till present. My team is responsible for all aspects of the product: strategy, definition, customer facing design, customer and product development, pricing, sales enablement, as well as business development. Escalation point for live site and operations. Mobile Services gained good traction among enterprises, consistently noted by Gartner MADP reports as the key MSFT strength, traction among iOS developers, including MacWorld : http://www.macworld.com/article/2031592/apple-fans-microsoft-is-no-longer-the-enemy.html . Realized large apps need a-la-carte capabilities, brought cross-plat push notifications service Notification Hubs to market. Lead product manager in the Capptain acquisition, resulting in Azure Mobile Engagement service. Led the team through integration. Recently drove App Service Mobile (next version of Mobile Services, integrated with Azure web & API platform).

Principal Group Program Manager

Promoted

Dec 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

Product owner for Windows Communication Foundation (.NET messaging stack), .NET Web Api stack, WCF RIA services.
Led development of WCF Web API (later on ASP.NET Web API) recognizing the needs of modern services. On top of this extended the story for browsers and mobile clients.
Took over and WCF RIA Services v2 - facilitating the rich client apps.
First attempt at the Azure App Platform (App Fabric)

Principal Lead Program Manager

Jul 2006 – Nov 2009 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Windows Communication Foundation

Senior Program Manager

Promoted

Nov 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 7 mos

Focus on Frameworks and Tools. SOAP Toolkit (Web Services for COM), SQL Server, System.Xml / Tools, Web Services Enhancements, Windows Communication Foundation