Pavels Sisojevs
Senior Software Engineer at Chatroulette
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPavels Sisojevs is a product-oriented Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with eight years of experience designing and delivering backend systems, currently building at Chatroulette after leading a five-person team on a greenfield financial platform at Leonteq. He brings deep Scala/Java expertise from roles at Evolution Gaming and Accenture, pairing hands-on development with architecture and team leadership. Pavels has practical test automation chops—contributing MUnit integration and robust container lifecycle tests to the well-known testcontainers-scala project—showing attention to reliability and edge-case handling. Comfortable across integrations with external systems, he focuses on shipping maintainable, production-ready software while mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rigas Tehniska Universitate
Github Skills (5)
scala10
unit-testing10
mockito10
test-automation10
test-container9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
testcontainers/testcontainers-scala
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Docker containers for testing in scala
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Pavels implemented MUnit integration within the `testcontainers-scala` project, creating and modifying test files using MUnit. They added tests to verify container behavior and lifecycle management, mocking container interactions to simulate various scenarios. The user also refactored and reorganized test code, moving MUnit-related files into a dedicated folder. Furthermore, the commits reflect a focus on ensuring proper handling of container start/stop procedures and addressing potential edge cases in the testing framework.
docker-containerscalatesting
the-pavels/release-pager
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Telegram bot for GitHub repository release notifications
Contributions:375 commits, 918 PRs, 376 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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