Ev Kontsevoy
Cofounder, CEO at Teleport
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarEv Kontsevoy is a veteran software founder and CEO with 11+ years building developer-focused infrastructure products from MVP to acquisition and scale. As cofounder and CEO of Teleport he blends hands-on backend engineering—contributing to open-source projects like teleconsole—with product-led security work that integrates IAM, machine identity and Zero Trust to simplify infrastructure protection. Previously he co-founded Mailgun (YC) and led product at Rackspace to launch OnMetal bare-metal servers, demonstrating a knack for turning infrastructure complexity into developer-friendly APIs. Based in Oakland, he pairs deep practical experience in CLI/SSH tooling and distributed systems with a preference for elegant, engineer-centric UX—he even quips that trains are great, cars are not.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
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Github Skills (17)
deploying10
apidoc10
go10
api10
teleport10
documentation10
ssh10
cli10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
tooling7
cicd7
collaboration7
mailgun6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleconsole
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
Command line tool to share your UNIX terminal and forward local TCP ports to people you trust.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1 review, 67 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ev primarily focused on developing and maintaining the core backend logic for the teleconsole tool. Contributions include the implementation of the `StartBroadcast` function, which handles the creation of SSH sessions and proxy requests. The user also worked on API client functionality, session management, and integrating teleport features. The user also made improvements to the client/server sync process.
unixsshcollaborationportspair-programming
gravitational/gravity
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Kubernetes application deployments for restricted, regulated or remote environments.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 41 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ev's contributions focused on refining the CLI user interface and addressing documentation issues. They removed deprecated features, updated the documentation, and improved the user experience by tweaking the help messages in the command-line tool. They also addressed broken links and other minor issues to improve the overall presentation of the documentation for the project.
devopsdockerregulatedrestrictedk8s
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