Grigoriy Tolstikov
Lead Automation Engineer
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolGrigoriy Tolstikov is a Lead Automation Engineer based in Saint Petersburg with eight years of hands-on experience building automation and QA for backend systems, dialog engines, and security-focused products. After progressing from QA internships at Dell to senior SDET roles at Kaspersky, he now leads work on bots and LLM agents at Tinkoff, bringing practical expertise in chatbot backends and automation frameworks. He holds top marks in both bachelor’s and master’s programs in Computer Software Engineering, reflecting a strong academic foundation paired with rapid career advancement. Colleagues appreciate his blend of rigorous test engineering, product-focused automation, and a knack for turning conversational AI prototypes into production-ready agents. Not obvious from titles: he has repeatedly moved between enterprise security and consumer finance domains, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on reliability and threat-aware automation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 4.95/5.0, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 4.95/5.0 at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Github Skills (17)
flask-admin9
allure9
pytest-bdd8
web-application7
redis-streams7
pytest7
python6
functional-programming4
pydantic3
kubernetes1
postgresql1
architecture1
ecm1
k8s1
database1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grih9/javaLabs2020
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 2 years 10 months
grih9/big_data_tv_shows
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:40 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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