Nikolai Gladkov
Software Engineer at Yandex
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolNikolai Gladkov is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Yandex after leading QA automation efforts there. He combines deep QA and test automation expertise—having led and mentored a nine-person team and created CI/CD pipelines and QA performance tools—with solid hands-on coding in Python and Java. Nikolai has practical experience configuring infrastructure-as-code and production automation runtimes, and secondary exposure to TypeScript, Kotlin and Go. His academic background includes study and research stints at National Taiwan University and The University of Tokyo, reflecting a broad international technical perspective. Known for bridging engineering and testing, he frequently advises teams on architecture and test framework design to improve reliability and delivery.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Saint Petersburg State UniversityExchange Student, Information Technology, Exchange Student, Information Technology at National Taiwan UniversityUniversity of Tokyo
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Github Skills (37)
testng10
cucumber-jvm10
automation-testing10
allure10
spock10
selenium-java10
extentreports10
json9
test-reporting9
java9
kotlin9
java-client9
rest-services9
rest-api9
xml9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gladnik/practice2016
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:53 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
kotlinjavapythonpractical
gladnik/rarc
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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