Nina Polshakova
Member Of Technical Staff at Stealth
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNina Polshakova is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native backend systems and operator-focused tooling from Cambridge, MA. Currently at solo.io, she specializes in Kubernetes-centric infrastructure, Istio integrations, and API gateway work—evidenced by substantive contributions to the kgateway project including Istio refactors, CSRF/filtering features, enterprise rate limits, and TLS/gzip robustness fixes. Her background blends production engineering and DevOps with a strong grounding in security and teaching from multiple TA roles at Brown University, where she also earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science. Nina’s work shows a pattern of improving reliability and policy controls in distributed systems, and she brings practical experience shipping both code and deployment automation. Colleagues value her for digging into protocol-level issues and translating security and networking concerns into maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Brown UniversityDublin Scioto High SchoolOhio State Highschool Academy Program, Ohio State Highschool Academy Program at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (15)
env10
api-management10
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
envoyproxy10
api-gateway10
convoy10
cicd9
kubernetes-pods9
cd9
kubernetes9
docker8
grpc8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 1516 reviews, 69 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nina's primary contributions involved significant refactoring and updates related to the Istio integration within the API gateway, specifically renaming components and modifying discovery addresses. They also implemented and tested a new CSRF filter, adding features for policy validation and origin verification, and integrated new features for enterprise rate limit. The user also worked on bug fixes and refactoring related to buffer, gzip, TLS inspector and homebrew deployment.
aiapi-gatewaycloud-nativeenvoyserverless
npolshakova/agentgateway
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Next Generation Agentic Proxy
Contributions:178 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 2 months
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