Boris Kurktchiev
Field CTO (Frontier Innovation Plumber)
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Kurktchiev is a cloud-native security and AI practitioner with 11 years of experience building zero-trust identity solutions and automated policy enforcement for Kubernetes and hybrid clouds. He has served as a Field CTO/solutions architect across startups and enterprises, driving product features, large account wins, and hybrid cloud migrations while translating technical strategy into measurable revenue and reliability gains. An active contributor and organizer in the CNCF Cloud Native AI community, Boris co-authored the Cloud Native AI whitepaper and presents regularly at KubeCon and SecureCon on AI-for-security topics. He blends hands-on implementation—RAG pipelines, fine-tuning LLMs, and ML for identity governance—with customer-facing roles that turn complex compliance and governance needs into deployable systems. Based in Durham, NC, he’s known for combining pragmatic engineering with thought leadership and an uncanny ability to explain zero-trust identity to both engineers and executives.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer Security, Master's Computer Security at University of South Carolina
Bulgarian, English
Github Skills (200)
firewall10
rdp10
bastion10
security10
mosh10
pam10
ssh10
charts10
kyverno10
helm10
ansible10
golang10
rbac10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
back-stack/showcase
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
The showcase implementation of The BACK stack
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 40 PRs in 9 months
kurktchiev/jenkins-pipeline-examples
Jul 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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