Alexander Zhidkov
Artificial Intelligence Consultant at ASKALX
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
🤩
RockstarAlexander Zhidkov is an artificial intelligence consultant and pragmatic, business-minded technology leader based in Perth with over 20 years of software development experience and a recent focus on agentic AI systems. He blends hands-on engineering (React, .NET, cloud platforms) with strategic technical leadership—building AI-native processes, QA practices, and production-grade pipelines that scale. Alexander has led cross-functional teams in startups and government programs, translating complex requirements into reliable, auditable systems while mentoring and improving developer experience. At ASKALX he architects AI workflows and human-AI collaboration, emphasising empathetic change management so teams actually adopt new automation. A proponent of Lean and Agile, he measures success by outcomes and minimal overhead, and even contributes to testing and automation practices in open-source projects. His career arc—from early systems and banking software to leading AI agent platforms—shows a rare combination of operational rigour and creative problem-solving.
5 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
mocking10
test-automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mate-academy/py-flip-coin
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on writing and improving tests for the `flip_coin` function in the repository. Their commits involved adding new tests and modifying existing ones to cover different scenarios and edge cases. These tests included parameterization using `pytest` and mocking external dependencies, as well as updating assertions. The overall goal was to ensure the correctness and reliability of the `flip_coin` function.
mate-academy/py-products-out-of-date
Feb 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:13 reviews, 8 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.