Alex Rodionov
Staff Automation Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rodionov is a Staff Automation Engineer based in San Jose with 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable test and CI/CD platforms and a broader 18-year pedigree in QA and development productivity. At Toptal he led large-scale migrations to monorepo/Bazel and cloud-native CI that cut costs and build times dramatically while scaling to a million daily builds, and now brings that systems-level automation expertise to Airbnb. He is a pragmatic engineering leader who designs observability, contract-testing, and productivity tools used across dozens of teams, and he pairs that with deep open-source contributions to well-known projects like Watir, Sinatra, and Mozilla Addon-Tests. Comfortable across languages and tooling (Ruby, Python, Selenium, Bazel, Kubernetes), he reliably turns complex testing problems into robust, repeatable systems. Known for long-term commitment and speaking at international conferences, he combines production impact with community-oriented craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis, Master’s Degree Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis at Omsk State Pedagogical University (OSPU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
watir10
selenium10
python10
testing10
it-security10
page-object10
selenium-ide10
ruby10
security10
sinatra10
rack10
web-framework10
unit-test10
test-automation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
watir/watir
Jan 2012 - Aug 2020
Watir Powered By Selenium
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:313 commits, 39 PRs, 150 pushes in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and implementation of features related to the Watir-Webdriver project. They focused on implementing and improving the Alert API by introducing methods for handling JavaScript alerts, confirms and prompts. Furthermore, the user's commits included refactoring and cleaning up code, such as making methods private, fixing specs and improving documentation.
seleniumwatirruby
mozilla/Addon-Tests
May 2011 - Feb 2012
Tests for Mozilla's Add-ons website
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:59 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions focused on adding and modifying test cases for the Mozilla Add-ons website. Their work primarily involved writing tests using Python and integrating them within the existing testing framework. The commits show modifications to test files to validate search functionality, including tests for sorting, breadcrumbs, and user interface elements. These updates demonstrate a commitment to thorough testing of the website's features.
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