BIO

Kyril Faenov is the General Manager of SQL Test in the Business Platform Division that is part of the Microsoft Corporation’s Server and Tools Business.  Kyril is responsible for quality assurance, sustaining engineering, and engineering systems and operations of the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure products.

Before joining the SQL organization in 2011, Kyril was the General Manager of the Technical Computing Group, which developed Windows HPC Server, Parallel Computing Platform and mathematical modeling tools aimed at enabling broader access by commercial, government and academic customers to large scale cloud computing and data analysis resources.  Kyril founded the High Performance Computing business unit in 2004 and lead the development of Windows HPC Server product, world-wide industry and academic partnerships.

Kyril’s prior contributions at Microsoft include running product planning for Windows Server 2008, co-founding a distributed systems project in the office of the CTO, driving cross-company strategic initiatives as a technical advisor to the Platforms Group Vice President, and developing the Network Load Balancing scale-out technology in Windows 2000.

Kyril joined Microsoft in 1998 as the result of acquisition of Valence Research, an Internet server clustering startup he co-founded and grew to profitability by securing MSN, Microsoft.com and some of the world's other largest web sites as its clients. He was a principal technical member of two other parallel systems startups, as well as a software consultant to Intel on a variety of embedded and performance simulation projects.

Kyril holds BS and MS degrees in computer science with concentration in distributed systems and computational mathematics and an MBA in Technology Management.  Kyril grew up in Moscow, Russia, where he trained with the Olympic Reserve swimming team and studied physics and mathematics. He now lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two daughters.

For the past 12 years Kyril has been active in Seattle entrepreneurship community as an angel investor and advisor to various early stage startups, and as a member of the Alliance of Angels’ screening committee, Social Venture Partners organization, and advisory board of the UW Institute for Early Learning and Brain Sciences.