# Kirill Yarovoy

> Senior DevOps and SRE consultant. Helping SaaS scaleups reduce cloud infrastructure costs and build Kubernetes platforms.

## About

5+ years scaling production Kubernetes infrastructure for SaaS companies. Based in Budapest, available for remote engagements globally. Specialize in cost optimization for companies with $50K-500K monthly cloud spend.

Target clients are Series B to Series D SaaS scaleups with 50-300 engineers, typically running Kubernetes on AWS or GCP.

## Services

- **Cloud Cost Audit** — 5-day deep dive into Kubernetes and cloud spend. Identifies 20-40% reduction opportunities. Fixed price.
- **Kubernetes Cost Optimization** — Implementation of Karpenter, right-sizing, spot instances, multi-tenancy. Typical engagement 8-12 weeks.
- **Platform Engineering** — Internal developer platforms, GitOps workflows, Backstage adoption, developer self-service.
- **Production Reliability** — Incident response improvements, SLO/SLI design, observability stack optimization.
- **Fractional Head of Platform** — Long-term retainer for ongoing platform leadership.

## Expertise

- Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, self-managed) at scale
- Cloud cost optimization and FinOps
- Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, spot instances
- Platform engineering and IDP design
- Cross-cloud networking
- Production debugging and SRE practices
- Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus stack
- AWS, GCP, multi-cloud environments

## Industries

- B2B SaaS
- Developer tools
- Fintech (non-regulated)
- Data infrastructure
- AI/ML infrastructure (with caveats)

## Engagement model

- Discovery calls free, 30 minutes
- Most clients start with Cloud Cost Audit ($4K, 5 days)
- Larger engagements priced as fixed scope or monthly retainer
- Available 40 hours per week
- Time zones: Europe and US Eastern/Central

## Contact

- Email: contact@kirill.engineer
- Schedule call: https://cal.com/kirill-yarovoy
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kirkyles
- GitHub: https://github.com/kirkylesich

## Resources

- [Homepage](https://kirill.engineer/): Main website
- [LinkedIn posts](https://linkedin.com/in/kirkyles/recent-activity/all/): Technical articles on Kubernetes, cost optimization, platform engineering
- [GitHub](https://github.com/kirkylesich): Open source contributions and projects