Nikola Prokopić
Senior Software Engineer at vCluster
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolNikola Prokopić is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native Kubernetes platforms and infrastructure. Based in Belgrade, he has driven architectural improvements and lifecycle management at Giant Swarm and now contributes to vCluster, focusing on provider-independent Cluster API integrations, Helm chart redesigns, and automation that reduce operational complexity. He blends backend engineering and DevOps—contributing notable fixes and features to the widely used cluster-api-provider-azure project—and has hands-on experience across Azure, AWS, GCP and on-prem providers. Early career work spans distributed services at Microsoft and full‑stack and CTO roles in startups, giving him a rare mix of product, customer-facing, and low-level systems experience. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic redesigns that cut duplication and improve reliability while keeping developer experience front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Science and Mathematics Department, Science and Mathematics Department at 5th Belgrade Grammar SchoolMaster in Information Technologies, Master in Information Technologies at Universitat de les Illes BalearsBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computing Computer Science at University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering
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Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikola's commits primarily involve enhancements and bug fixes within the `cluster-api-provider-azure` project, focusing on the Azure MachinePool and Managed Control Plane components. They implemented features like support for conditions in AzureMachinePool, set OsType for Linux in agent pool profiles, and fixed AKS cluster provisioning errors. Additionally, the user refactored managed cluster and machine pool scopes and addressed documentation issues, suggesting a focus on improving the project's usability and operational aspects.
apicluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclek8s-provider-azuremicrosoft-azure
nprokopic/cluster-api-provider-azure
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Contributions:33 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
apicluster-apimicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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