Ilya Perov is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading development on enterprise-grade developer tools, currently contributing at Kaspersky from Tula, Russia. He spent over a decade at SmartBear progressing from QA and individual contributor roles to Engineering Team Lead, where he managed a team, drove multi-release planning, and liaised with US-based clients and Boston headquarters. Ilya has deep back-end Java experience and has contributed to notable open-source tooling like SoapUI, adding analytics and instrumentation to improve product observability and user behavior tracking. Comfortable working in English across time zones, he combines hands-on coding with technical mentorship and a track record of shipping reliable features for flagship products. Trained in applied mathematics and IT (MS, Tula State University), he brings analytical rigor to product engineering and telemetry-driven decisions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics and Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics and Information Technology at Tula State University
SoapUI is a free and open source cross-platform functional testing solution for APIs and web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 29 reviews, 387 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ilya appears to be focused on adding analytics tracking to the SoapUI application. They are instrumenting various actions within the application, such as "Use TestOnDemand", "RunLoadTest", and "RunSecurityTest", by integrating analytics tracking calls. The user is also responsible for adding functionality to track debugging mode usage and modifications in the code that sends this analytics data, suggesting their involvement in feature development and tracking user behavior within the software. The commits predominantly touch Java code, highlighting back-end development skills.
Provides ReadyAPI - Jira integration based on Jira rest API
Contributions:3 reviews, 102 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 5 months
apijira-integrationjirarestjira-rest-api
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