Efrem Sarmazov is an AI Engineering Team Lead and multidisciplinary software engineer with a decade of experience building QA, DevOps, and backend systems across blockchain, DeFi, and healthcare domains. He has a proven track record of creating testing automation and QA processes from scratch, transforming startups into production-ready teams while also leading technical support and hiring. As co-founder of a small but highly productive team, he designed a fully automated DeFi arbitrage bot with flash loans and custom infrastructure, blending deep systems thinking with pragmatic delivery. Efrem bridges hands-on engineering (Python, TypeScript, Rust, Solidity) and platform operations (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), and regularly implements end-to-end testing across web and mobile using Playwright, Cypress, Appium and Pytest. Known for meticulous attention to detail and analytics-driven QA metrics, he pairs strong process formalization with low-level debugging and telemetry expertise. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he’s equally interested in high-tech, science, medicine and music, and stays reachable for technical discussions via Telegram (@Moody_Reaper).
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering Systems Management, Bachelor's degree Engineering Systems Management at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Contributions:97 commits, 26 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year
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Efrem Sarmazov - AI Engineering Team Lead at Newo.ai