Vladyslav Miachkov is a software engineer with eight years of experience building security-focused, cloud-native systems, currently working at Palo Alto Networks. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java Spring/Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS and Angular, complemented by a strong C++ background from prior roles at CyberArk, Developex and other embedded/desktop-focused projects. A contributor to the Amnezia VPN client, he has improved cross-platform UI behavior and low-level networking data handling, showing comfort across full-stack and systems-level work. Academically trained in applied mathematics and AI at Taras Shevchenko National University and UNIT Factory, he is pursuing PhD-level research in computer science while shipping production software. Colleagues rely on him to bridge cybersecurity requirements with pragmatic engineering—often surfacing subtle UX/networking edge cases that others miss. Based in Kyiv, he combines rigorous technical foundations with practical product-minded contributions across open source and enterprise codebases.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Programming/Programmer General, Bachelor's degree Computer Programming/Programmer General at UNIT Factory
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Contributions:10 reviews, 18 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vladyslav primarily contributed to the Amnezia VPN client, focusing on both UI and backend improvements. Their work included fixing UI issues on macOS, such as tray icon color states, and resolving functional problems like inverted switches. The user also addressed issues related to preventing changes to active containers and enhancing the display of client information. Furthermore, the user implemented updates to get data from the wg show command, including inverting the received and sent data for client information, and added clickable docs url on error.
My small library which contain recode of original C functions
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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