Verified skill report

Hen Hakobyan

Back end engineer

Assessed live by

Saro Vilhelm Yekanian · Back end developer

Assessed: Aug 15, 2026
Verification: Back end engineer

Verdict: develop — I specifically grade their Node.js knwoledge, and overall system design + db knwoledge.

1 demonstrated5 partial2 gaps

The verdict is the way it is because they did not meet the expectations of three years of knwoledge and experience of Node.js, which is ok for them, becuase their experience is mostly in PHP/Laravel. From the thinking and logic POV, they have a good approach to the problems as far as I can tell, and they have a good problem solving mindset. The gaps are the specific knwolede of Node.js and its ecosystem and logic behind signle threaded process, Event Loop, System design, Microservices, Architecting in general.

Verified skills

Backend Developmentby Saro

Skill matrix

8 skills probed in the session

Backend Development
Demonstrated
JavaScript
Partial
Software Development
Partial
Testing (Jest, Mocha)
Partial
Design Patterns
Partial
Git
Partial
Node.js
Gap
TypeScript
Gap

Evidence

What happened in the session

Lack of knowledge of single threaded paradigm(multi threaded by default for supported packages like fs, zlib, crypto, etc.) behind the Node.js ecosystem, the best practices of NPM, microservices knwoledge, system design knwoledge.

Action plan

What to do next

garbage collection streams (N6) jitter and retries connection pooling microservices, system design, and the Node event loop

Saro Vilhelm Yekanian

Back end developer

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Report issued Aug 15, 2026
Verification ID hen-hakobyan-software-engineer
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