Alex Brilliantov

About

Engineering manager with over 8 years in executive leadership and 18 years in software and infrastructure development. I have run high-load systems and optimised development processes — increasing releases from 1 to 30-40 per month — and built remote teams, growing them from 5 to over 40 people. A strategic approach to engineering keeps customer satisfaction high and business growth sustainable.

Experience

• Technical Director for Imunify360 · CloudLinux

  Aug 2025 — Present

  • Own end-to-end technical direction for Imunify360, CloudLinux's flagship server-security suite — malware detection, WAF, proactive defense and automated patching — protecting web-hosting servers at scale.
  • Lead an engineering organisation of ~65 across development, malware research and QA; responsible for architecture, delivery and technical quality.
  • Drive AI adoption across R&D — embedding AI agents into QA and architecture-review gates and standardising internal AI workflows.
  • Built an LLM-maintained knowledge and decision-context platform giving teams and agents a single authoritative view of ownership, status and decisions.

• R&D Director · Virtuozzo

  Dec 2024 — Jun 2025 · Remote

  • Led R&D for virtualization and cloud-management software used by cloud providers, managed service providers and hosting companies.

• Engineering Director · Chainstack

  Sep 2021 — Dec 2024

  • Key player in the company's expansion from 10 to 110 employees; built and led a remote engineering team from 5 to 40+ professionals.
  • Transitioned to an agile system enabling 30-40 micro-releases per month, with QA and security gates in CI/CD.
  • Led the infrastructure team across five global clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, Virtuozzo) and a cross-department initiative achieving 99.99% uptime.
  • Introduced OpenTracing observability and post-mortem practice; aligned department KPIs with product objectives.

• Chief Technology Officer · Yango.pro

  Sep 2020 — Sep 2021 · Moscow

  • Technology company enabling customers to trade on the OTC market — a niche Robinhood competitor.
  • Built 6 teams from scratch, conducting 250+ interviews and hiring 20+ engineers.
  • Shortened the release cycle from 2-3 months to 2-3 weeks, with daily releases for some products.
  • Implemented infrastructure as code with Terraform and Kubernetes, and monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus.

• Chief Technology Officer, Founder · Litexit.ru

  Sep 2018 — Nov 2022 · Moscow

  • A book-publishing platform — a Russian counterpart to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
  • Built the site with social-networking elements, online payments and a new-chapter alert system driving engagement.
  • Successful cash exit: sold to the major Russian player in the market.

• Technical Project Manager → Deputy CTO · Qiwi

  Sep 2016 — Feb 2020 · Moscow

  • QiwiBOX parcel lockers: from business and user cases through development to operations.
  • Built a high-load, fault-tolerant system and the teams around it; hiring, technical interviews, onboarding.
  • Planned architecture and evolution of IT systems; built multi-level product support.
  • Python microservices — Django/Flask/Tornado/aiohttp, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, ELK, Docker, Swagger API contracts.