Zakhar Petukhov is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-load, production-grade backends and test automation for blockchain, social, and consumer platforms. Based in Bali, he has designed and implemented scalable services for Tonkeeper/TonAPI that handle up to hundreds of thousands of RPS, including payment processing, push notifications, 2FA and on-chain scam protection. He also contributed robust pytest-based test suites to the open-source Bitcart payment processor and has a track record of improving CI/CD, containerized deployments, and reliability across projects. Past roles include architecting real-time features like WebRTC room calls and location-based tracking for multi-million DAU products, showing a blend of distributed-systems and real-time experience. Curious and pragmatic, he pairs low-level performance tuning with practical automation and security-minded design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete Higher Education, Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies, Incomplete Higher Education, Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies at The Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
Incomplete Higher Education, Faculty of Nuclear Power Engineering and Automation, Incomplete Higher Education, Faculty of Nuclear Power Engineering and Automation at Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University
Bitcart is a free and open-source self-hosted payment processor for BTC, LTC, BCH, XMR, ETH, TRX, USDT and more
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 branch in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zakhar primarily contributed to the project by writing and modifying tests for the Bitcart application. These tests covered various aspects, including wallet creation, product management, and API functionality. The user demonstrated proficiency in using the pytest framework to validate the application's behavior and ensure code quality. The contributions focused on building a robust testing suite for both models and views within the Bitcart project.
Contributions:1 PR, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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