Vlad Klokun
Senior Software Engineer at Cast AI
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Klokun is a Senior Software Engineer from Kyiv with nine years of experience building cloud-native, microservice-based systems using modern Python and Golang. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Kubescape, where he improved scan result outputs, OpenAPI schemas, and code maintainability for a widely used Kubernetes security platform. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Helm, Istio and developer tooling, he blends pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for experimental ideas—having adopted property-based testing early after exploring Haskell-inspired techniques. At companies from startups to scale-ups, he’s driven improvements in security, scalability and developer experience, and now focuses on IaC and GitOps practices in his pet projects and current role. His background in distributed systems, test-driven development and even typography signals a meticulous, systems-minded engineer who values both correctness and ergonomics.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Junior Specialist Software Engineering, Junior Specialist Software Engineering at College of Information Technology and Land Management (KITZ NAU)Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at National University «Kyiv Aviation Institute»
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (9)
swagger10
go10
api10
openapi10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods9
html9
kubernetes9
security8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubescape/kubescape
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 92 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Vlad implemented features to add HTML output to the scan results, which included creating new files for HTML printing, updating existing files for swagger documentation and fixing various aspects. They also added and extended the OpenAPI V2 schema, creating new parameters and responses for existing endpoints, and adding methods to retrieve scan results. Additionally, the user refactored the code, renaming variables, methods, and top-level global variables to enhance readability and maintainability.
best-practiceclustersriskrisk-analysiscompliance
vladklokun/kubescape
Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
Kubescape is a K8s open-source tool providing a multi-cloud K8s single pane of glass, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer and image vulnerabilities scanning.
Contributions:7 PRs, 40 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 2 months
riskrisk-analysiscompliancemulti-cloudvulnerabilities
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