Ivan Kornienko
Director Of Engineering, Cloud Applications
Adliswil, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Kornienko is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native teams and products, currently serving as Director of Engineering, Cloud Applications at Guidewire in Zurich. He has a strong track record of shipping ground-up SaaS offerings and led a rapid rebuild of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform that materially increased ARR, while personally contributing UI improvements to that prominent open-source security project. Ivan combines hands-on full‑stack chops (React, Node.js, Java, Kubernetes, AWS) with organizational skills in hiring, distributed-team management and release-process design, having grown teams across multiple continents. Known for multiplying talent, he repeatedly turns small teams into high-performing organizations and drove company-wide adoption of React and faster biweekly release cadences. A pragmatist and authentic leader, he also prototypes innovative features such as conversational UIs and emphasizes practical DevOps and product partnership to accelerate time-to-value.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
container8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
expressjs7
security7
eslint6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:124 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ivan contributed to the UI of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform, making changes to the Apollo UI, including support for dynamic URLs, and the integration of ESLint. They also implemented changes to the Violations and Dashboard pages, fixing polling cancellation and UI display issues. Furthermore, the user refactored and enhanced the user interface, renaming elements, adding new features and functionality, and making overall improvements.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
dumitru-petrusca/gosu-lang
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:131 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
compilergosuprogramming-languageinterpreter
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