Kostia Kaploon is a QA Engineer with 11 years of software development experience who blends full-stack coding chops in JavaScript, Ruby, and Python with practical QA expertise to drive product reliability. After a career building front-end and distributed systems — including modernizing legacy JS at GuardiCore and contributing UI improvements to the widely used OpenAssistant project — he transitioned into QA to focus on test planning, integration testing, and automation. At Maccabi Healthcare Services he led mobile UAT efforts and executed complex API and integration tests across Kafka, Couchbase, SQL and legacy systems, demonstrating an ability to test heterogeneous environments. He’s enthusiastic about moving into test automation, leverages his developer background to write better tests and tooling, and prioritizes customer satisfaction in every delivery. Based in Israel, Kostia combines hands-on engineering with a methodical QA mindset and a proven record of improving UX and code quality.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
ISTQB CTFL, Quality Assurance, ISTQB CTFL, Quality Assurance at John Bryce
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 reviews, 16 commits, 16 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Kostia primarily contributed to the front-end development of the OpenAssistant website. They implemented new UI components such as collapsable text and refactored existing ones, enhancing the user experience. Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to the modal overlay and resolved pre-commit issues, indicating a focus on UI/UX and code quality. The user also added context messages to enhance the user interface.
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Contributions:67 pushes, 32 branches in 17 days
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