Anton Cherniavskyi
Back-end Developer at Optix
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Cherniavskyi is a Back-end Developer with 12 years of experience building reliable server-side systems and transport-focused web applications used across 20+ countries. Currently at Optix in New Westminster, he combines graduate-level CS training from Simon Fraser University with a strong applied-math background from Kyiv Polytechnic to solve algorithmic and engineering challenges. His practical mindset—"Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week"—drives steady delivery across backend, automation, and internal tooling. Anton contributes to notable open-source projects like Codeception, improving test generators, autoloading, and documentation usability, showing attention to both developer experience and code quality. He brings hands-on expertise in scaling backend features for real-world operations and a knack for tightening developer workflows that often goes unseen in production metrics.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic InstituteSchool 6, SumyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (13)
codeception10
automation10
php10
automations10
automation-testing10
testing10
unit-testing8
phpunit8
integration-testing8
unit-test8
acceptance-testing8
yaml6
bash4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Codeception/Codeception
Jun 2014 - Jun 2019
Full-stack testing PHP framework
Role in this project:
Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:50 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the Codeception framework by updating generator templates for different testing components (Cept, Cest, Group, PageObject, PhpUnit, StepObject, and Test). They also addressed syntax highlighting for various languages in the documentation and improved the alignment of modules in the site's dropdown menu. Furthermore, the user fixed a typo in the assertion methods and updated the autoloader and bootstrapping processes.
acceptance-testingend-to-endtestingphpbdd
splinter89/Codeception
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
Full-stack testing PHP framework
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
testingphpfull-stackframeworkphpunit
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