Nikita Kononov
Summary
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RockstarNikita 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
Github Skills (32)
esxi10
tooling10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
cnf10
commons10
provisioning10
openshift10
e2e10
documentation10
sdn9
ptp9
redhat9
operator9
k8s9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-kni/eco-goinfra
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 1325 reviews, 650 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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
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