Andrii Vakarev
Platform Engineer
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrii Vakarev is a Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening backend platforms across enterprise and product-focused teams, currently based in the Berlin/Bonn area and working at Deutsche Bahn. His background spans IoT and innovation platforms at OSRAM, fast-moving startups and games companies, and early roles in large-scale services at Yandex, giving him a strong blend of operational rigor and product delivery. He contributes to open-source testing infrastructure (notably improving Cucumber-Ruby’s rake task reliability), reflecting a practical commitment to quality and developer experience. Comfortable across stacks from server-side systems and APIs to automation and DevOps, he brings a history of incremental improvements that reduce operational friction and increase test reliability. Notably, his career path shows a steady focus on platform stability and test engineering that quietly amplifies team velocity.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, Math, Economics, Specialist, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, Math, Economics at Donbass State Technical University
English, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (6)
rake10
cucumber10
spec10
test-automation10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Andrii focused on improving the testing infrastructure for the Cucumber-Ruby project, specifically for the rake task. They added tests to ensure the rake task returned the correct exit status code and didn't output rake's backtrace. They also refactored existing tests and updated the test suite to use "bundle exec rake" for execution. These changes enhanced the reliability and robustness of the testing process.
cucumberrubypolyglot-releasetidelift
avakarev/go-util
Jul 2023 - Jun 2026
Collection of opinionated utilities for go development
Contributions:42 releases, 103 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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