# Kirill Makhonin

> Principal Software Engineer / Platform Architect in New York.

Hands-on software engineer and platform architect building distributed data, ML/AI, and infrastructure platforms across heterogeneous environments. Use agentic development workflows, primarily Claude Code, across architecture and codebase exploration, implementation, testing, and review, while retaining ownership of technical decisions and production quality. Build production systems with Python, Go, TypeScript/React, and a broad range of IaaC tooling.

17+ years of experience spanning industrial simulation and geospatial applications, enterprise data platforms, distributed ML training and data platforms, identity systems, GPU infrastructure, and AI application platforms.

Contact: career@makhonin.biz. Last reviewed: 2026-09-24.

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