Nikita Ryzhkov
Руководитель Группы Специалистов По Тестированию at Mail.ru Group
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Ryzhkov is an experienced testing leader with eight years in QA and automation, currently heading a test specialists group at Mail.ru Group in Saint Petersburg. He combines deep hands-on automation skills (JUnit, Selenium, Robotium) with product-focused functional testing across web, API, iOS and Android platforms, and has led anti-spam, feed and infrastructure testing for large consumer services. Earlier roles include building service-level autotests with Ruby/Cucumber and developing small tooling in C#, plus a background in C++ from his university thesis work. An active contributor to open-source iOS projects like XCDYouTubeKit, he has applied practical video playback parsing improvements that reflect a knack for improving robustness in real-world clients. Known as a mentor and pragmatic problem-solver, he blends engineering craftsmanship with team coaching to deliver reliable, scalable quality.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
objective-c10
ios10
360-video10
youtube10
player10
regular-expression9
swift5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
0xced/XCDYouTubeKit
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
YouTube video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the XCDYouTubeKit project by implementing and refining features related to YouTube video playback on iOS. They added support for custom regular expressions for video parsing and introduced improvements to the video operation class. Furthermore, the user incorporated updates to the client and player script classes, including addressing style issues and refining the parsing logic for video information. These changes enhanced the functionality and robustness of the YouTube video player.
cocoapodstvosyoutube-videoyoutube-video-playeryoutube
Nikitos9I/ITMO-labs
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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