Andrei Bykov
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolAndrei Bykov is a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable web automation and testing solutions, currently leading QA efforts at Pure Storage from Prague. He has a strong background in web scraping and browser automation from multiple roles at Apify, where he contributed to and optimized the popular Crawlee library—improving request performance and robustness for real-world crawlers. Andrei blends hands-on TypeScript and Playwright test engineering with process-driven QA leadership, having established end-to-end testing practices and improved issue-tracking and cross-team workflows. His experience spans client-facing automation, developer onboarding, and tooling/documentation improvements, plus earlier analytical roles in business analysis and auditing that sharpen his attention to risk and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Degree, Applied Informatics in Economics, Specialist Degree, Applied Informatics in Economics at Ural State Technical UniversityPhysics and Mathematics, Physics and Mathematics at Grammar School №13
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
web-crawler10
webscraper10
typescript10
webscraping10
crawling10
automation10
typescript-types10
crawler10
nodejs10
automations10
typescripts10
puppeteer9
playwright9
test-automation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apify/crawlee
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 31 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the `crawlee` library. Their contributions include optimizing request creation by implementing custom validation logic and improving request creation performance. They also added examples for requestAsBrowser and fixed typos. Further contributions involve updating documentation, and fixing inconsistencies in the sessionPool cookie setting.
aibrowser-automationcheeriocrawleecrawler
AndreyBykov/actor-sReality-listings-monitor
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
apifymonitoring-toolweb-scraper
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