Ivan Nikolchev
Senior Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Nikolchev is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Berlin with eight years of experience building and automating reliable infrastructure for enterprise environments. He has progressed from system administration roles at IBM and regional firms to senior automation and platform engineering positions at Red Hat and Bonial, demonstrating strong expertise in CI/CD, testing, and platform reliability. His open-source contributions to the tlsfuzzer project show a practical security focus—adding TLS 1.3 cipher tests, DH exchange checks and ECDSA handling—to strengthen protocol compliance and fuzz testing. Ivan combines hands-on troubleshooting with automation-first thinking, often closing gaps between QA and platform teams to deliver robust deployments. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems and his steady advancement into platform leadership.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
No degree Network Technologies, No degree Network Technologies at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - SkopjeHigh School Diploma Mathematics, High School Diploma Mathematics at SOU Jane Sandanski, Strumica
Macedonian, English
Github Skills (16)
mtls10
tls1210
mstest10
ui-testing10
teste10
tls1310
libtls10
testing10
python9
ssl9
test-suite9
test-framework8
test-automation8
cryptography7
automations7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tlsfuzzer/tlsfuzzer
May 2019 - Jul 2021
SSL and TLS protocol test suite and fuzzer
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 22 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ivan contributed several tests to verify TLS 1.3 symmetric ciphers, including comprehensive checks of the application data and finished messages. Additional commits focused on adding tests for DH key exchange and ensuring security by testing against the AES-CCM ciphers. Moreover, the user updated existing test scripts to incorporate ECDSA signatures and address issues with the no-sha1 condition, demonstrating a focus on protocol compliance and robustness.
security-vulnerabilitytesting-toolsdrowntlslitetest-automation
inikolcev/tlsfuzzer
May 2019 - Jun 2021
SSL and TLS protocol test suite and fuzzer
Contributions:54 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years
sslsecuritytlsfuzzertls13
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