Ilia Lobkov
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolIlia Lobkov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building cloud-native networking and service-mesh infrastructure. He has shipped production features and performance optimizations for CNCF projects like Kuma and Network Service Mesh, contributing to fault injection, mesh gateways, Envoy configuration, Kubernetes CNI work, and integration testing. At Kong he progressed from engineer to senior engineer, bringing a backend-and-DevOps mindset honed at Xored where he bridged Go microservices, frontend tooling and private-cloud integrations. Comfortable across Go, Java, and infrastructure tooling, Ilia combines systems-level debugging with pragmatic test-first development. He often works on the less-visible but critical plumbing—CI/CD, Helm deployments, and k8s dependency management—that makes distributed systems reliable at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (20)
env10
kubernetes10
mesh10
docker10
envoyproxy10
dockers10
cicd10
fault-injection10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
convoy10
grpc10
kubernetes-apiserver9
networking9
helm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kumahq/kuma
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Infrastructure Engineer
Backend Developer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1843 reviews, 262 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ilia primarily focused on extending the Kuma project's functionality by adding support for a number of features like fault injection and mesh gateways by making changes to the envoy configuration. Furthermore, the user improved the codebase by adding integration tests and performance optimizations, and fixing various bugs. A portion of the work involved modifications related to Kubernetes infrastructure, including CNI configurations and updating k8s dependencies.
kumacontourconnectivityvmssandbox
networkservicemesh/networkservicemesh
Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
The Hybrid/Multi-cloud IP Service Mesh
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:108 commits, 140 PRs, 335 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ilia primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and core functionalities of the "networkservicemesh/networkservicemesh" project. Their work included extending API functionality, implementing local connection mechanisms, and adding unit tests for these features. They also focused on integrating new components using VPP and Docker. Finally, they worked on configuring and deploying the necessary elements for the service mesh using Helm.
golangmeshnetworkingkuberneteshybrid
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