Vlad Khononov
Founding Engineer at nekuda
Israel
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Top SchoolVlad Khononov is a founding engineer and software architect with 13 years of industry experience specializing in untangling monoliths, designing resilient distributed systems, and aligning architecture with business domains. He has held senior and chief architect roles across startups and scale-focused teams, most recently shaping cloud-scale solutions as Senior Cloud Architect at DoiT International and now leading product and architecture at nekuda. Vlad is an author of two books—Learning Domain-Driven Design (O’Reilly) and Balancing Coupling in Software Design (Addison-Wesley)—and a regular keynote speaker on architecture and DDD. He contributes to open source work such as adding JSON layout support to the widely used NLog logging library, reflecting hands-on backend craftsmanship. Based in Israel, he blends practical coding, formal domain modeling, and systems thinking to turn complex technical debt into pragmatic, evolvable designs. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate deep architectural trade-offs into actionable engineering plans that teams can implement.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Management & Computer Science, B.A. Management & Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (15)
dotnet-new10
logging10
dotnet10
logger10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unit-test9
bounded-contexts6
design-patterns6
asp-net6
poco6
service-object6
domain-driven-design6
repository-pattern6
strategy-pattern6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NLog/NLog
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
NLog - Advanced and Structured Logging for Various .NET Platforms
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 21 days
Contributions summary:Vlad implemented a JSON layout feature within the NLog library. This involved creating new classes for `JsonLayout` and `JsonAttribute` and modifying the existing project configuration files. They also created unit tests to validate the functionality and ensure proper encoding of special characters and line breaks within the JSON output. These changes directly enhance the structured logging capabilities of NLog by providing a JSON output format.
structured-loggingloggingnetstandard13c-sharpuwp
vladikk/SQL2JSON
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 3 days
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