What people say
What it’s like to work with me.
Written by the people I worked next to, day to day. Nothing here is edited — I only left out the company names.
I had the pleasure of working with Tykhon in our Payments squad, where I was the squad lead.
Tykhon was someone I could really rely on. He was thorough with his testing, good at spotting edge cases, and always willing to dig deeper when something didn’t look right.
What I particularly liked was that he didn’t just test what was in front of him. He took the time to understand the feature and the potential impact, asked good questions, and worked closely with developers and the rest of the squad.
Payments is an area where small issues can sometimes have a big impact, so having someone like Tykhon on the team made a real difference. I really enjoyed working with him and would be happy to recommend him to any team.
Wilson Silva
Senior Backend Developer & Payments Squad Lead
Tykhon and I worked together for a bit over two years, and I would happily do it again.
When he joined, I had already built a working foundation with Cypress, dockerised and seeded from fixtures, running locally and in CI. He took it over and grew it into a stronger setup: not just the tests, but also the test database, the fixtures behind them, the backend configuration and later the CI pipelines.
I enjoyed watching him grow. In his first year he was fighting flaky runs, there is a commit called “attempt 99 to make them pass in ci”. They passed. He learned from it, stopped adding waits and started removing them everywhere instead, improved the pipelines, wrote the testing guidelines we now work by and refactored the suites to follow them. In his last year he reviewed more pull requests than he opened, and developers who had never touched our e2e suite started writing tests in it.
He is thorough, stubborn in the way a QA engineer should be, easy to work with and direct when something is wrong. I trusted him with the quality of what we shipped, and I recommend him to any team looking for a strong QA engineer.
Kevin Ley
Senior Full Stack Developer
Tykhon is a strong QA in both automation and manual testing. He has significantly strengthened the team upon joining it. He works with style and doesn’t let even the toughest issues to change the positive and optimistic attitude. Tykhon is able to work productively with a minimal supervision.
Denys Pereverziev
Frontend Team Lead / Senior Angular Developer
Tykhon is a very interesting, competent and super talented individual.
His work is great, and his intuition, drive and unique perspective leads far, being really rare to find.
Working with you is a gift in many ways, and I’m glad to have crossed paths.
I’ve learned so much, just by being next to you.
Thank you Tykhon!
Balla Diagne
UX/UI Designer
I worked with Tykhon on the Wander Wise project, and I can attest that you won’t find a more proactive, responsible, and creative person.
Tykhon poured all his energy and effort into the project (and he has a lot of it). He not only flawlessly fulfilled his role in QA, but also made a significant contribution to the app design. Without his involvement, the project would have taken at least twice as long.
Additionally, Tykhon participated in every brainstorming session and generated brilliant ideas and solutions.
I am confident that the success of the Wander Wise project is largely due to Tykhon’s work.
Vitalii Kazymyrovych
Regional Sales Manager (CIS)
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