Veli Akiner
Staff SDET at GRAIL
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVeli Akiner is a Staff SDET based in London with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling test automation across startups and enterprise teams. He has progressed from automation developer and QA engineer roles to technical SDET leadership at GRAIL, bringing deep expertise in Python, Pytest, Selenium, CI/CD and backend test suites. His background includes improving reliability of messaging clients at IBM and driving end-to-end automation at Kopernio, demonstrating a pattern of fixing timing-sensitive bugs and raising automation coverage. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering—balancing robust test design with shipping velocity—and for knowing the best local lunch spots. Trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, he combines analytical rigor with practical software craft. He prefers maintaining professional boundaries on LinkedIn, reflecting a focused, workplace-first networking style.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Physics, MSci, Physics at Imperial College LondonLoxford School of Science & Technology
Spanish, Turkish
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (42)
service-virtualization10
testing9
hoverfly9
mocking9
stubbing9
rest-api9
firefox8
api8
proxy8
chrome8
simulation8
javascript7
golang7
http7
pytest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kopernio/pytest-hoverfly-wrapper
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Pytest plugin that uses Hoverfly under the covers to cache and fake HTTP responses
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 10 months
pythoncachepytest-pluginpytesthoverfly
veliakiner/wurmdle
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Wordle derivative for Pokemon base stats
Contributions:92 PRs, 126 pushes, 82 branches in 5 months
wordlephoneticsquery-languagestatsderivative
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