Pavel Zhukov
Co-Founder And CTO at HushTales
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Zhukov is a seasoned technology leader and serial CTO/co-founder with 13 years of experience building web-first products and companies from Poland. He currently leads engineering across multiple ventures—including HushTales, LearnActive, ZenKoder, DecisionMapper and iDecisionGames—combining strategic product vision with hands-on system design. Pavel focuses on bleeding-edge web technologies and cloud-native practices, and has practical experience hardening infrastructure testing as shown by his QA contributions to the widely used terraform-google-iam module. He brings a pragmatic engineering mindset, improving test coverage and refactoring suites to ensure robust, repeatable deployments. A master's-trained computer scientist, he pairs academic rigour with startup speed and a knack for turning complex integrations into maintainable developer workflows. Colleagues describe him as an operator who still writes and vets the tests that keep production reliable.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Taurida 'V. I. Vernadskiy' National University, Simferopol
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (5)
terraformer10
cft10
terraform10
test-automation10
inspec9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-google-modules/terraform-google-iam
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Manages multiple IAM roles for resources on Google Cloud
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pavel focused on enhancing the testing coverage of the IAM module. Their contributions included adding various tests, specifically bucket tests, and ensuring comprehensive testing of all combinations of roles and entities. The user also refactored existing tests to utilize a custom resource library and improved the test suite by implementing additive and authoritative test configurations, increasing the robustness of the test suite.
gcpiam-rolesgoogle-cloud-platformiamgoogle-cloud
dmapper/startupjs
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
🔥 React Native + Web framework with the isomorphic realtime storage engine and observables
Contributions:327 commits, 14 PRs, 244 pushes in 6 months
realtimereactreact-nativeobservablesjavascript
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