Yury Kovalev
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Kovalev is a Senior Software Engineer based in Frankfurt with 11 years of experience building reliable backend and infrastructure systems. Currently at Red Hat after a long tenure at Deutsche Bank, he focuses on cloud-native and security-aware engineering, blending DevOps practices with backend development. His open-source contributions to the well-known StackRox Kubernetes security platform show hands-on work across tooling, operator/sensor components, and UI-facing certificate/rotation features that improve runtime safety and stability. Trained as a physicist at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he brings analytical rigor to debugging complex distributed systems and designing robust automation. Colleagues value his pragmatic problem-solving and steady delivery on security-sensitive, production-critical projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist degree, Physics, Specialist degree, Physics at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ)
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
sensor9
security9
sensor-fusion9
docker9
automated-tests8
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 reviews, 21 commits, 56 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily contributed to enhancing the `roxctl` command-line tool, introducing features such as a debug option for Helm chart generation and implementing related testing. They also worked on initializing bundle rotation and integrating certificate expiry warnings in the UI. The contributions span across multiple areas of the project, including the operator and sensor components, indicating a focus on infrastructure and core functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed several sensor-related issues, improving error handling and the overall stability of the system.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
kovayur/openshift-release
Nov 2022 - May 2024
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:40 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
k8skubernetesopenshifttooling
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