Our Team

Specific-Group, Minsk

  • Igor Riazantsev

  • Alexander Sidorov

  • Matvey Piskunov

  • Denis Shuranov

  • Alexander Stelmakh

  • Maksim Sidorov

  • Alexander Horuzhiy

  • Olga Batsyan

  • Daria Bulovatskaya

  • Konstantin Brovchenko

  • Viktor Kachan

  • Vladimir Kalko

  • Inna Kruchok

  • Konstantin Leyer

  • Alexander Markhonko

  • Oksana Matveeva

  • Oleg Rozhkov

  • Olga Skokova

  • Yuri Valiukevich

  • Igor Yakubov

  • Liudmila Zarzhytskaya

Igor Riazantsev|Managing Director|Specific-Group, Minsk

After finishing his studies in business administration in New Jersey (USA), Igor Riazantsev taught business at the University of Economics and Linguistic in Minsk. Subsequently, he worked in managerial positions in the industrial sector as well as realty and import/export businesses before taking over the position of managing director at Specific-Group in Belarus. Igor Riazantsev possesses excellent language skills and business administration knowledge.

Alexander Sidorov|Technical Director|Specific-Group, Minsk

After his studies in computer science, Alexander Sidorov began his professional career in 1998. First, he started out as a network technician and system administrator, then he switched to software development, and finally ended up in project management. Under his direction, numerous software projects of various sizes have been successfully implemented. Subsequently, Alexander Sidorov took up the position of technical director at Specific-Group. In this position, he is responsible for the definition and implementation of new processes and the introduction of new systems. On top of that, he is available to the project teams as ScrumMaster and, as such, ensures seamless project execution.

Matvey Piskunov|Java Team Leader|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: Oracle (Expert), MySQL (Advanced)

Programming languages: Java (Expert), SQL (Expert), JavaScript (Advanced)

Internet technologies: Java Server Pages (Expert), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Expert), XML/XSLT (Expert), JavaScript (Advanced)

Denis Shuranov|Database Team Leader|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: Microsoft SQL Server as well as sound knowledge in the area of Data Warehousing (Expert)

Programming languages: C# .NET, Scripting Languages (JavaScript, Ant, Maven, PHP) (Advanced), SQL (Expert)

Internet technologies: ASP.NET, JavaScript/VBScript (Advanced)

Alexander Stelmakh|.NET Team Leader|Specific-Group, Minsk

Erfahrung: mehr als 10 Jahre Praxis in der Softwareentwicklung. 
Datenbank Skills: Microsoft SQL Server (Advanced), Oracle
Programmiersprachen: C/C++ (Advanced), C# (Advanced), SQL (Advanced)
Internet Technologien: Java Server Pages (JSP), XML/XSLT (Advanced), ASP.NET

Experience: more than fifteen years in software development.

Database skills: Microsoft SQL Server (Advanced), Oracle

Programming languages: C/C++ (Advanced), C# (Expert), SQL (Advanced)

Internet technologies: XML/XSLT (Advanced), ASP.NET

Maksim Sidorov|Quality Assurance Team Leader|Specific-Group, Minsk

As leader of the department of quality assurance, Maksim Sidorov is responsible for the implementation and supervision of quality standards. He brings with him more than fifteen years of experience in software development. Since 2006, Maksim Sidorov has been focusing on automated system testing.

Alexander Horuzhiy|iPhone Team Leader|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: MySQL(Advanced)

Programming languages: Objective C (Expert), Java (Expert), C/C++ (Expert), SQL (Expert), JavaScript (Expert)

Internet technologies: Java Server Pages (Expert), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Expert), XML/XSLT (Advanced)

Olga Batsyan|Certified Translator|Specific-Group, Minsk

Olga Batsyan is mainly responsible for the translation of technical concepts (product requirements documents and functional specifications). She is a certified translator in German and English.

Daria Bulovatskaya|Accounting|Specific-Group, Minsk

Daria Bulovatskaya is responsible for financial accounting and payroll in Belarus.

Konstantin Brovchenko|.NET Senior Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than five years in software development.

Database skills: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server (Advanced), MySQL (Advanced)

Programming languages: C# (Advanced), Scripting Languages (JavaScript, Ant, Maven, PHP) (Advanced)

Internet technologies: ASP.NET (Advanced), PHP Hypertext Pre-processor (Advanced), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Advanced), JavaScript/VBScript (Advanced)

Viktor Kachan|Java Senior Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than five years in software development.

Database skills: Oracle, MySQL

Programming languages: Java (Expert), C/C++ (Advanced), SQL (Expert), JavaScript (Expert)

Internet technologies: Java Server Pages (Expert), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Advanced), XML/XSLT (Expert), JavaScript (Expert)

Vladimir Kalko|Java Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than five years in software development.

Database skills: Oracle, MySQL

Programming languages: Java (Advanced), C/C++, SQL (Advanced)

Internet technologies: Java Server Pages (Advanced), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Advanced), JavaScript/VBScript, XML/XSLT

Inna Kruchok|.NET Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: Microsoft SQL Server (Advanced)

Programming languages: C/C++ (Advanced), C# .NET, SQL (Advanced)

Internet technologies: ASP.NET, JavaScript/VBScript

Konstantin Leyer|System Architect|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: MS-SQL Server (Expert), MySQL (Expert)

Programming languages: Java (Expert), C/C++ (Expert), C# .NET (Expert), SQL (Expert), JavaScript (Advanced)

Internet technologies: Java Server Pages (Expert), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Expert), XML/XSLT (Advanced), ASP .NET (Expert)

Alexander Markhonko|.NET Senior Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: Microsoft SQL Server (Advanced), MySQL

Programming languages: Objective C (Advanced), C# .NET (Expert), SQL (Advanced)

Internet technologies: ASP.NET (Advanced), JavaScript/VBScript (Advanced), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Advanced), XML/XSLT (Advanced)

Oksana Matveeva|Quality Assurance|Specific-Group, Minsk

Oksana Matveeva is responsible for quality assurance in banking projects. Her specialty is the verification of correct conversion between different payment formats (Swift, SEPA, EDI, SAP iDoc etc.).

Oleg Rozhkov|.NET Senior Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: Microsoft SQL Server und Data Warehouse (Expert), Interbase (Advanced)

Programming languages: C/C++ (Expert), C# (Expert), Scripting Languages (JavaScript, Ant, Maven, PHP) (Advanced), SQL (Expert)

Internet technologies: ASP.NET (Advanced), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Advanced), JavaScript/VBScript (Advanced), XML/XSLT (Advanced)

Olga Skokova|Administration|Specific-Group, Minsk

Olga Skokova is the right hand of the managing director in Belarus. In addition to the administrative duties of day-to-day business, she is also in charge of personnel recruitment.

Yuri Valiukevich|Java Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Database skills: Oracle

Programming languages: Java (Advanced), SQL

Internet technologies: Java Server Pages, HTML/DHTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSLT

Igor Yakubov|.NET Senior Developer|Specific-Group, Minsk

Experience: more than ten years in software development.

Database skills: Microsoft SQL Server and Data Warehouse (Advanced), MySQL (Advanced)

Programming languages: C/C++ (Advanced), C# (Expert), Visual Basic (Advanced), SQL (Expert)

Internet technologies: Active Server Pages (Advanced), ASP.NET (Advanced), HTML/DHTML/CSS (Advanced), JavaScript/VBScript (Advanced), Internet Server API (Advanced)

Liudmila Zarzhytskaya|Quality Assurance|Specific-Group, Minsk

The focus of Liudmila Zarzhytskaya’s job is testing Windows applications. She carries out UAT and GUI tests with the help of self-generated test scripts as well as manual tests.