Work with me
Fifteen years in software quality, test automation, and delivery. Founder of CyborgTests, host of the Hot Testing community, and the person teams call when releases hurt, tests lie, or the pipeline costs more than it protects. I work with individuals and with teams — mentoring, training, reviews, and planning.
For engineers who want to move from writing tests to designing quality — and for leads who need a sounding board that is not their manager.
Personal sessions for QA engineers, SDETs, and test leads, shaped around your current codebase and your next career step.
A small cohort working through the same roadmap together, so people learn from each other's code and not only from mine.
Not a generic course recording. We start from your repository, your pipeline, and the problems your team actually complains about — then build the sessions around that.
From fundamentals to a framework the team can still maintain in a year.
Where AI genuinely removes work from testers and engineers — and where it only moves the work somewhere less visible.
Backend load and frontend performance treated as one question: what does the user feel when traffic arrives?
Accessibility as an engineering practice with checks in the pipeline, not a report nobody reads.
The layers below the UI, where most of the speed and most of the cost live.
A focused session for the whole engineering org, with a topic agreed in advance.
Sometimes you do not need training. You need someone experienced to look at the code, the pipeline, and the process, and say plainly what is working and what is quietly costing you.
A close read of your test suite: architecture, patterns, and the habits that will hurt in six months.
Pipelines grow by accident. This is a deliberate look at speed, cost, and how much confidence they really give you.
Where the testing effort goes today, and whether it is spent on the risks that matter.
Help deciding who can actually do the job, before you spend six months finding out.
For founders, CTOs, and engineering leads who need a quality and delivery plan that survives contact with reality — and a person to keep them honest while it is executed.
A written strategy for a product or a team: what you test, at which layer, and who owns it.
Turning releases from an event into a routine — the work described in chapter 01 of my story, done for your team.
A few hours a week of senior attention, for teams that need the judgment but not a full-time hire.
Moving a team from scattered personal experiments to a shared, inspectable way of working with AI.
If you are serving now, or you came back and the industry moved on without you, mentoring and consultations from me are free. One to one or in a group, on whatever you actually need — no trial, no upsell, no catch. This is the part of my work I do as a volunteer.
I served too. I know what a year away from a keyboard does to your confidence.
I was a soldier in the State Border Guard Service during the full-scale invasion, including in the Bakhmut area. Coming back, the hardest part is not the technology — it is the feeling that everyone moved on while you were busy with something more important. That feeling goes away much faster when there is someone to ask. This is what I can give.
Who it is for: veterans with combatant status, people currently serving, and those going through treatment or rehabilitation. No documents, no forms, no proof — write to me, say a few words about your situation, and we will find a time that fits your rotation or your treatment schedule.
Пишіть українською — так буде простіше.
Write to meI would rather spend thirty minutes understanding your problem than send you a price list for something you do not need.
Thirty minutes. You describe the situation, I ask uncomfortable questions, and we both find out whether I am the right person for it.
A short written proposal: scope, format, timeline, and price. No surprises later, and no obligation to accept it.
Sessions, workshop, report, or ongoing advisory — whatever we agreed, with the outcome written down at the end.
Pricing is agreed after the intro call. It depends on format, team size, and depth — hourly, per workshop, or a monthly retainer. I invoice as a registered Ukrainian sole proprietor, and I am comfortable signing an NDA before we talk about anything specific.
This is the ground I have actually worked on. Outside it, I will say so and point you to someone better.
I have been teaching this material to Ukrainian and international engineers for a decade, while doing the same work in production.
Prefer to see the work first? The Hot Testing YouTube channel has years of streams and workshops, and CyborgTests is the product built out of the same experience. Watch a few hours before you spend a euro.
English and Ukrainian. Training, mentoring, and written reports are available in both.
Remote by default, which keeps it cheaper and easier to schedule. On-site in Kyiv is possible, and travel elsewhere can be arranged for multi-day corporate training.
Hands-on workshops work best with up to twelve to fifteen people. Talks and lecture-style sessions scale to the whole engineering org.
Yes. I regularly work under NDA before seeing code or infrastructure, and I am happy to sign yours before we discuss specifics.
I invoice as a registered Ukrainian sole proprietor and can work with international companies. Rate and schedule — hourly, per engagement, or monthly retainer — are agreed in the proposal after the intro call.
Usually yes. I keep capacity for mentoring and short reviews, and larger training or consulting engagements are scheduled a few weeks ahead. Ask and I will tell you honestly.
The shortest section
Describe the team, the problem, and the deadline. If I am the right person, I will say how I would approach it. If I am not, I will tell you that too.
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