Yaroslav Yershov
Senior Engineer II, Backend at SpotHero
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYaroslav Yershov is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building maintainable, production-grade systems across trading, banking, e-commerce, and telecom domains. Currently at SpotHero after a long tenure at EPAM, he brings pragmatic tool-agnostic problem solving with primary expertise in Java and complementary skills in Node.js and Python. He emphasizes industry best practices, clean architecture, and flexibility in choosing the right technology for the task rather than following trends. Having transitioned from QA and automation into backend engineering, he pairs a deep appreciation for testability and reliability with a hands-on approach to complex distributed systems. Based in Chicago, he combines disciplined engineering judgment with a track record of shipping robust solutions in regulated and high-throughput environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree, Computer Science and Information Security, Master, Master’s degree, Computer Science and Information Security, Master at National Mining University, Dnipropetrovsk
Ukrainian, Russian, English
Github Skills (34)
reportportal10
webdriver10
selenium10
serenity-bdd10
windows10
automation10
automation-testing10
android10
serenity10
portal10
appium10
automation-framework10
test-automation10
testing9
ios9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Invictum/serenity-reportportal-integration
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Serenity TAF integration with Report Portal
Contributions:23 releases, 23 reviews, 203 commits in 3 years 8 months
report-portaltest-automationserenityreporttaf
Invictum/invictum-test
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
Automation framework based on Serenity BDD project
Contributions:15 releases, 145 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years 1 month
test-automationinvictum-testserenitytestingbdd
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