Technical Excellence

10+ years building quality-first software • Transforming teams through automation and best practices

Current Position

Senior Platform Engineer • Platform Team

Current

Senior Platform Engineer

FlinkSep 2024 - Current

Platform team (the Developer Experience team until it merged into Platform in December 2025): test infrastructure, internal tooling & AI adoption

25+

MCP Tools Shipped

Teams Enabled

Initiatives Led

Grew order testing from a proof of concept into a self-service platform: a Go API, a portal and MCP tools that other teams run and build on themselves
Designed and shipped a test identities service in one quarter: disposable test customers that stay out of analytics and marketing and retire automatically
Built the company's first MCP server, with 25+ tools for Claude Code and Gemini CLI

GoPythonTypeScriptKubernetesHelmArgoCDk6Pact/PactFlowDataDoggRPCMCPClaude CodeGemini CLIGitHub ActionsDockerGCPPlaywrightOpenAPI

Career Impact

10+

Years Experience

20+

Engineers Led

Teams Enabled

25+

MCP Tools Shipped

Professional Journey

Building quality-first systems and empowering teams

Previous Experience

Showing 6 of 6 past experiences

QA & Platform Engineering Lead (Contract)

Enterprise Cybersecurity2024 - 2025

Network Access Control — Quality standards, load testing & infrastructure sizing

Team Members

20K+

Devices Supported

Test Scenarios

Led a team of 10 engineers, established quality standards and quality gates across the product
Built infrastructure sizing calculator for NAC deployments supporting 1K-20K+ devices
Developed empirical performance model from load test results — 4 auth methods (MAB, PEAP, EAP-TLS, EAP-TEAP)

JavaScriptk6RADIUSGrafanaKubernetesGoGraphQLNeo4jRedisDockerNginx

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Flink2023 - Sep 2024

10+

Microservices Monitored

Improved PWA reliability with end-to-end and integration test coverage
Developed end-to-end automation frameworks for microservices environment
Created pubsub integration testing for distributed systems

TypeScriptCypressk6DataDogPubSubDocker

Senior AQA Engineer

StartMail2022 - 2023

80% → 4%

UI Test Flakiness

Reduced UI test flakiness from 80% to 4% with Cypress framework in TypeScript
Introduced cross-browser testing across the critical user scenarios
Documented 50+ critical bugs and edge cases from production users

TypeScriptCypressJavaScriptReact

Software Developer in Test

Miro2021 - 2022

700+

Tests Refactored

Created test automation framework for backend integration and E2E tests
Refactored 700+ tests to use the new framework
Implemented new testing strategy for company products

JavaKotlinRetrofitAllure TestOpsGradle

QA Engineering Lead

Nexign, Quantori2019 - 2021

500+

Tests Automated

Team Members

Managed QA teams up to 20 members across telecom, life science & IoT domains
500+ automated tests across Python, Java, and TypeScript frameworks
Built frameworks for Deep Neural Networks, IoT devices, and Cypress E2E
Mentoring, onboarding curriculum design, and internal QA workshops

TypeScriptCypressPythonJavaSeleniumJenkinsTensorFlow

QA Engineer & Python Developer

Quality-Lab, Freelance2015 - 2018

Team Members

400+

Test Cases

Built 10-member QA team with quality metrics and processes
400+ test scenarios (SoapUI, manual, automated)
Developed Python web service with reporting integrations
API testing webinars and onboarding templates

PythonDjangoSoapUIREST APIsPostgreSQL

Technical Expertise

Core technologies and tools powering modern platform engineering and quality automation

Languages

GoTypeScriptPythonJavaKotlin

Testing & QA

k6Pact/PactFlowPlaywrightCypressAllureSonarCloud

Cloud & Infrastructure

KubernetesGCPDockerTerraformArgoCDHelm

CI/CD & DevOps

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkins

Monitoring & Observability

DataDogGrafanaPrometheus

Databases & Messaging

PostgreSQLNeo4jRedisKafkaPub/Sub

Protocols & APIs

gRPCRESTOpenAPIGraphQLSOAP

AI & Tooling

MCPClaude CodeGemini CLI

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