Maksim Ryzhikov
Principal Software Engineer at Huawei
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolMaksim Ryzhikov is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping front-end and full-stack solutions for major tech firms including Huawei, Yandex, VK, and JetBrains. He combines deep frontend expertise with test automation and tooling—evidenced by notable contributions to Karma and karma-jasmine (bug fixes, test filtering, randomization) and to the popular Russian AngularJS documentation project where he built the initial app structure and deployment pipeline. A pragmatic team leader and hands-on engineer, he has moved between senior IC and team lead roles, focusing on improving developer workflows, build systems, and reliability. Based in St. Petersburg, he brings a track record of solving platform-level issues (web server, file handling, source maps) and integrating third-party tools like WallabyJS, Google Analytics, and Disqus to enhance product and community engagement.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Leningrad State University
Stackoverflow
5,189reputation
345kreached
77answers
8questions
flutter
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
coffeescript10
translation10
testing10
css10
test-runner10
angularjs10
html10
jasmine10
k10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
debugging9
browser9
documentation9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
karma-runner/karma-jasmine
Oct 2014 - Aug 2017
A Karma plugin - adapter for Jasmine testing framework.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:38 commits, 30 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maksim primarily contributed to enhancing the testing framework within the karma-jasmine project. They fixed a bug related to error messages and implemented a new feature for test filtering using the grep option. Their work also included adding support for test randomization and seed configuration.
jasminetesting
AngularjsRUS/angular-doc
Apr 2013 - Aug 2014
Русская документация по Angulajs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:190 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Maksim primarily contributed to the Russian documentation for AngularJS. Their work involved translating the documentation, updating links, adding images, and modifying the navigation menu. They also set up the initial application structure, including the home page, and configured the build process for deployment on Heroku. Furthermore, they integrated Google Analytics and Disqus for improved user engagement.
angulajsangular
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