David Tchekachev
“ Tchekda ”
Tech Consultant - Software Engineer - Team Lead

contact@tchekda.fr

About

Who am I - What do I do - What do I like

Who I am

My name is David Tchekachev (a.k.a Tchekda on the Internet) and I'm a computer science student at EPITA, specialized in Information Systems & Software Engineering on the SIGL Masters Program.

Currently seeking an end-of-studies internship or full-time job, starting from Feb 2026. Resume available here

In the past years I have architectured, developed, and deployed many solutions for companies that had specific needs to computerize and automate some repetitive tasks, which led me to register my own company as a freelancer. Solving problems in a creative way is what drives me to keep learning and improving my skills.

I also engage in sport and volunteering activities in order to build new skills that I can use for my professional experience. Keeping myself busy to get better and more valuable is one of my most important goals.

Portait David Tchekachev
“ A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. ”
Alan J. Perlis

Skills

What am I competent with - What have I used in past projects

IT Missions

Software Engineering
Advanced
Solutions Architecture
Advanced
Dev Team Leader
Advanced
Agile / SCRUM
Intermediate
Enterprise & Cloud Architect
Intermediate

Tools / Technics

APIs - REST / Auth / Perf
Advanced
DevOps / CI-CD / Docker
Advanced
Scripting / Automation
Advanced
Linux Server Administration
Advanced
AWS Cloud Essentials
Intermediate

Programming

TS / Node / NestJS / React
Advanced
Python / Django / Flask
Advanced
PHP / Symfony / SQL
Advanced
Rust / Go
Intermediate
Java / C# / C
Intermediate

Labels :
  • Advanced : Used in multiple projects, competent with advanced notions, can fluently re-use with it without hesitation
  • Intermediate : Played with it on side-projects or uni projects, have some understanding of its use-cases and limitations
“ Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ”
Martin Fowler

Soft skills

How do I work with other people - What makes me different

What makes me better at what I do

David Tchekachev Ice Hockey Referee Portrai
  • My experience in ice-hockey refereeing forced me to master some skills such as communication, conflict management, teamwork, stress management, decision-making, openness to criticism, leadership and many more because I need to take decisions in the matter of a second while managing players that are competing at full speed. I also heavily rely on my colleagues as much as they rely on me to take the best decisions from the points of view we each have and take a step back to quickly analyze tense situations.
  • As a freelance, working with real clients taught me some other skills which helped me gain a lot of experience, for example adaptability, leadership, creativity, time management, project organization, specification formalization and problem-solving are skills that helped me a lot to successfully answer client's needs by providing custom solutions that fit perfectly the requirements provided.
  • As a team leader, I discovered a lot of new aspects that are helping me efficiently manage my teams by developing a variety of skills like project management, collaboration, decision making, communication, leadership and many others valuable keys to create the best environment for my colleagues and I to work in.
  • Being curious is keeping me interested in the new solutions used on the market that could allow me to build new projects in the future. When I want to solve a challenge, this allows me to take a step back and research what is already available out-of-the-box to use, instead of building everything from scratch, and then make the best recommandation to my clients with the most time-and-cost efficient proposal.
“ If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likable person. ”
Alan Cooper

Actions

What am I doing else

What I'm doing for others and our society

Outside of my studies and sports activities, I also like to volunteer on my freetime, in areas I am passionate about. It allows me to try new things in a friendly environment, without any professional expectations.

Being a self-taught developer, I wished so many times to have someone to help me and guide me in my learning process, so I decided to give back to the community by helping students in their learning process. I started by leading workshops at CoderDojo Paris, and later join Prologin / GirlsCanCode (national organization)

I have developed a passion for aviation which led me to buy a Flight Simulation software and join an online network, IVAO.aero. One thing led to another and I ended up joining the organization's Web Dev team, after some years I took over the leadership of the team and now I am in charge of a team of 10 developers, working on the various projects. Applying my tech skills to the aviation world is an awesome opportunity.

In 2024, Paris hosted the Summer Olympics & Paralympics; since I didn't only want to spectate and wanted to contribute as I could to the event, I applied to be a volunteer. I requested to be placed at a leadership position and was assigned to co-lead the Olympic & Paralympic Family Assistant teams (300 volunteers each). I quickly proved myself valuable and trustworthy within the organization, and was given additional responsibilities to support the operations and ensure smooth coordination between the various parties attending the event.

David Tchekachev Volunteer at Paris 2024 Olympics
“ Talk is cheap. Show me the code. ”
Linus Torvalds

Projects

What did I work on

IVAO Webeye screenshot

IVAO Web Manager

January 2021 - Now

Web Team Manager in the Development Operations department. I'm in charge of the overview, supervision, assignement, deployment, testing, validation and maintenance of the IVAO Web Systems. Being part of this organization has given me the opportunity to work with a lot of different technologies, people and problematics to solve on our systems which are visited by thousands of people every day.

  • Backend: NodeJS (NestJS), Rust, PHP (Laravel), Python
  • Frontend: Typescript (ReactJS)
  • Database: MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis
  • DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
  • Observability: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • Public and Internal API interactions: REST (500 reqs/sec) & RabbitMQ (400 msg/sec)
  • Team leader: Documentation, Code Review, Onboarding, Coordination with other teams
  • Main projects:
For IVAO.aero
Students with computers

"Avenir" Platform

April 2020 - Now

Highschool platform replacing the paper version of "Fiche Navette" used to collect student's wish for next year's options. With a complete backoffice to configure everything, with common import/export formats and a dashboard for teachers.

Product Page
For highschools
Kardz virtual profile screenshot

Deloitte Paris

Sept 2024 - Jan 2025

After completing my Bachelors degree and before starting my Masters, I wanted to discover real-world entreprise IT architectures to grasp a better understanding on how they operate. By joining Deloitte's IT M&A team, I was able to work with various companies while developing my formalization and analyzing skills. While I was providing tech expertise, I was also given the opportunity to autonomously lead a small Due Diligence project thanks to the trust built with my team.

Deloitte Luxembourg Timesheet and GenAI

Deloitte Luxembourg

June 2023 - Aug 2023

During a summer internship at Deloitte Luxembourg, I lead the development of an internal application in coordination with the UI/UX team while reporting to the company's stakeholders. This project was a great opportunity to learn how to work in a big company and how to manage a project from A to Z.
Also, I had the opportunity to drive some research on Generative AI and how it could be used in such big company.

Kardz virtual profile screenshot

Preen.Me - Aggaeus

Dec 2022 - May 2023

Joined the team as a technical IT consultant & developer to create proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and website MVPs to pre-sell new product ideas in order to test how the market would react and would require a complete full-size solution. Working for this company allowed me to touch a lot of different technologies and new things I wouldn't have thought of, such as BigData, Influencer Marketing, Mobile Application, Blockchain, Medical products, E-commerce, AWS at scale, etc...

Air traffic controller

Internal Automation Tools

August 2021 - Dec 2021

Automating and optimizing repetitive tasks while providing some insights on processes by analyzing statistical data. All tools are hand-made to fit their exact need and integrate with existing internal tools and third-party services.

For AT&R
Self-Made car

High school engineering project: Car with sensors managed by RaspberryPi 4 and an Android Kotlin application to take control if needed

Repositories

2 months
For national olympiads
“ Working together produces a greater result than the sum of individual elements ”

Contact

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