Artem Zakharchenko
Teacher at Epic Web
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolArtem Zakharchenko is a versatile software engineer and educator based in Prague with seven years of hands-on experience building full-stack JavaScript systems and developer tooling. Trained as a medical doctor, he pivoted into tech and brings a methodical, evidence-driven approach to API validation, front-end performance, and developer experience. He has contributed to and maintained the popular Dredd API testing tool at Oracle, modernizing its codebase and improving its reporting, and later built the VS Code extension and Node-in-the-browser polyfills at CodeSandbox. As a teacher at Epic Web he creates and delivers workshops and technical content on automated testing, blending clear pedagogy with real-world engineering practices. Known for advocating user-driven end-to-end testing and pragmatic BDD, Artem combines deep implementation skills with a knack for making complex tooling accessible.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Dentistry, Bachelor’s Degree Dentistry at Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, PoltavaGraduate English language, Graduate English language at International House, Poltava
English, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
test-framework10
javascript10
configurations10
configuration-file10
api-testing10
test-automation10
testing10
nodejs9
cli-application8
cli-app8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apiaryio/dredd
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 165 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to improving the Dredd testing tool. They added a summary to the HTML reporter to provide a clearer overview of test results. The user also refactored code, removing deprecated CLI options and replacing unsupported JavaScript syntax to maintain and modernize the codebase. Additionally, the user addressed and corrected eslint errors and modularized configuration components.
openapi-validationagnostictest-runnerapi-testingopenapi
apiaryio/gavel-spec
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Behavior specification for Gavel, validator of HTTP transactions
Contributions:1 review, 57 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 9 months
http-transactionssjs-teamgherkinvalidationspecification
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