Nikita Kononov
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNikita Kononov is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in software quality and cloud/network engineering, currently leading quality and engineering initiatives at Red Hat out of Toronto. His career traces a steady progression from hands-on network and VPN QA roles in Israel to technical leadership at Check Point and now principal-level responsibilities at Red Hat, reflecting deep expertise in reliability, test strategy, and cloud-native environments. Comfortable bridging engineering and quality disciplines, he drives scalable testing practices and cross-team collaboration to ship robust platform software. Having worked across Israel, Canada and Russia, he brings an international perspective and practical networking background that informs pragmatic approaches to system observability and resilience.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist The technology of automated information processing, Specialist The technology of automated information processing at Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts
Russian, English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (38)
provisioning10
openshift10
e2e10
documentation10
cnf9
ptp9
operator9
test-automation8
redhat8
golang8
testing7
kustomize7
cni7
ansible7
vms7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kononovn/cnf-features-deploy
Jan 2020 - Jan 2024
Kustomize configs for installing CNF features and e2e functional tests for verifying feature deployment/integration
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years
kubernetes-deploymentdeploymentinstallingconfigsk8s
kononovn/eco-goinfra
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 178 pushes, 166 branches in 1 year 7 months
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