Evgeny Kolesnikov
Písek, South Bohemia, Czechia
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Top SchoolEvgeny Kolesnikov is an experienced embedded and Linux systems engineer with 11 years in software development focused on networking, desktop platforms and IoT, most recently as a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. He combines low-level C systems work—fixing memory leaks, resource management and chroot/chdir security issues—with higher-level security automation contributions in projects like ComplianceAsCode and the widely used OpenSCAP toolkit. Based in Prague, he brings a pragmatic blend of security-minded engineering and platform-level troubleshooting, having improved SSH handling across container backends and added OCP4 build support. His background in electronic and communications engineering underpins a hands-on approach to embedded platforms and cross-domain integrations that reliably translate into production-grade fixes.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
English, Russian, Czech
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Github Skills (23)
cap10
it-security10
memory-management10
bash10
c-programming10
openscap10
security-automation10
security10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
sca10
security-hardening9
podman9
xml8
ssh8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSCAP/openscap
May 2019 - Jan 2023
NIST Certified SCAP 1.2 toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:7 releases, 343 reviews, 345 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny focused on fixing memory leaks and security vulnerabilities within the OpenSCAP codebase. Their contributions primarily involved identifying and resolving resource leaks in C code, specifically related to string and memory allocations. They also addressed security-related issues by fixing double chroot/chdir calls, which enhanced the overall security posture of the project. Their work also included addressing potential issues with improper use of functions related to file extended attributes and fixing schema-related issues.
nistdata-streamxccdfovalsecurity
ComplianceAsCode/content
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:207 reviews, 147 commits, 101 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny primarily focused on enhancing the security automation content within the repository. Their contributions involve fixing SSH port handling issues, particularly for different backends such as podman. Furthermore, the user introduced support for the OCP4 product by adding initial build system components. They also addressed regression issues and improved the codebase through refactoring and template enhancements.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
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