Mikhail Davydov
Principal Software Development Engineer at Octaura
Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMikhail Davydov is a Principal Software Development Engineer and seasoned QA leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades of industry involvement in test architecture, automation, and platform engineering. He currently leads the Marquee Quality Assurance Engineering Platform at Goldman Sachs, where he architected scalable test orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD) and integrated UI, API, and performance frameworks to standardize testing across teams. Previously he grew and led SDET practices at InRhythm and EPAM, delivering large-scale automation suites, CI/CD pipelines, and coaching teams into production-ready engineers. Known for shipping results under tight constraints, he delivered a fixed-price, 3-month automation engagement for Ally Bank that secured follow-on business and converted contractors into full hires. Mikhail pairs deep technical breadth—Node/TypeScript, Playwright, WebDriverIO, Jest, Express, React, Postgres—with strategic platform ownership and stakeholder collaboration. Based in Rutherford, NJ, he brings a pragmatic, architect-first approach to embedding quality into complex enterprise systems.
15 years of coding experience
National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys)
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (30)
ruby-client10
coercion9
ruby7
plug5
authentication4
elixir3
payfort3
payment3
payment-gateway3
credit3
payment-methods2
credit-card2
validation2
redis2
php2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ecomcharge/model_receiver
Sep 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 2 months
begateway/smart_routing_rb
Oct 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 17 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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