Veronika Volokitina

Software engineer at Zalando. Berlin.

Experience

Zalando

Software Engineer · Aug 2024 – Present

Built Skipper’s admission webhook to reject invalid routes across 250+ Kubernetes clusters; automated WAF complaint monitoring.

Solanteq

Software Engineer · Jan 2021 – Jul 2024

Built payment tracing, key-management systems, and reliable card-script delivery. Enabled encryption upgrades without interrupting transactions.

Talks

KCD Porto × DevOps Days Portugal

Nov 19–20, 2026 · Expected

Fail Fast Routing: Reusing the Ingress Controller as a Kubernetes Admission Webhook

Cloud Native Days Austria · Sep 2026

YouTube

Fail Fast Routing

Swiss Cloud Native Day · Sep 2026

YouTube

One Definition of Valid

GopherCon UK · Aug 2026

YouTube

Route validation in Skipper

Women Techmakers Berlin · Oct 2025

Blog

Read the blog

Competitions

1st place · UFA_SUPERHERO

IQ Park services track · Team Blurred Technologies · 2021 (age 19)

Online hackathon with teams across Russia · 37 teams across all tracks

1st place · WorldSkills Hi-Tech

Aircraft assembly · 2017 (age 16)

National junior championship, Russia · 126 juniors across all skills

Prizewinner · Zvezda Engineering Olympiad

Engineering & technology · Third-degree diploma · 2018 (age 16)

National school olympiad, Russia · 325,000+ entrants across all subjects

Veronika Volokitina

Experience

Zalando

Solanteq

Talks

KCD Porto × DevOps Days Portugal

Fail Fast Routing: Reusing the Ingress Controller as a Kubernetes Admission Webhook

Fail Fast Routing

One Definition of Valid

Route validation in Skipper

Blog

Competitions

1st place · UFA_SUPERHERO

1st place · WorldSkills Hi-Tech

Prizewinner · Zvezda Engineering Olympiad

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