Daniel Kontorovskyi is a software engineer with nine years of experience building secure, production-ready back-end systems and leading engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. He has held engineering and managerial roles at Snyk—contributing to its CLI security scanner and authentication flows—and co-founded Nagomi Security before joining Koi. Comfortable shipping across the stack, Daniel combines a strong mathematical background (Master’s in Mathematics) with hands-on security engineering, including work on Docker integration and vulnerability path handling in a high-profile open-source project. Known for practical improvements like clearer error messaging and experimental feature gating, he brings an operator’s attention to reliability and developer experience. Based in the Tel-Aviv District, he blends startup grit with proven leadership in product security and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:6 reviews, 119 commits, 147 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on improving the Snyk CLI's security scanning capabilities. Their contributions included implementing a human-readable error message for incorrect file input, enhancing authentication to protect against missing API tokens, and adding a check for experimental feature flags. The user also worked on code related to the project's monitoring feature and its interaction with the Snyk API. Moreover, the commits show work on handling vulnerability paths and code related to Docker integration.
Contributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
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