Employee of the Month: Edijs Bethers

Congratulations to Edijs Bethers, our Lead QA & Technical Support Engineer, for being awarded Employee of the Month.

Edijs has been a huge help throughout the office move, going above and beyond to make sure everything was set up and running smoothly. His hard work, flexibility and willingness to take on responsibilities outside of his usual role played a big part in making the move a success.

What do you do for Engineius?

I wear a couple of hats. I lead the QA team, so we make sure everything we ship to the portal and the apps actually works before it reaches drivers, customers and the ops teams. That includes testing new features, maintaining automated regression coverage, and catching problems before they become someone's bad morning.

I also lead IT Support, which covers everything that keeps the office running: accounts, laptops, access, kit, and being the point of contact for any IT issues.

What motivates you to do well in your role?

Solving things! I like leaving something in a better state than when I found it, whether that's a broken process, a flaky test suite or someone's laptop.

If people can get on with their day without thinking about the tech, that's the job done properly.

What playlist do you listen to in the car the most?

I keep it simple, either a 2000s throwback mix or Rammstein and Scooter on repeat - there is no middle ground.

What do you like most about working for Engineius?

Everyone is accessible. The CEO is a few seats away, and if you have an idea, you can just say it. No barriers, no judgement, and no waiting three weeks for a meeting.

On top of that, you get real room to grow. If you spot something that could be better, you're trusted to go and build it rather than being told to stay in your lane.

What’s your favourite way to unwind after a busy day?

A long drive with the windows down and the music up, nothing beats it. Otherwise, I'm cooking, which is the one thing that properly switches my brain off after a day of screens.

What's the most interesting thing you've read or seen this week?

An article my colleague Daniel shared about a GitLab flaw that scored a perfect 10 out of 10 for severity. In plain terms, anyone could send a single web request to a vulnerable GitLab server and read files off it without logging in at all. No password, no account, nothing.

That matters because GitLab isn't just where code lives. It's usually wired into build pipelines, cloud accounts and deployments, and those servers are often sitting on passwords, keys and secrets that developers left in the code. Get those, and you're into everything else.

It's already being probed in the wild, so it's a good reminder that the boring stuff, patching quickly and keeping secrets out of code, is what actually saves you.

Describe one thing you've learnt in your role?

Two things that turned out to be the same thing. First, you'll never catch every bug, and chasing that is a waste of everyone's time. The skill is knowing which failures would genuinely hurt the business and putting your effort there.

Second, since moving into a lead role, I've realised most of the problems that look technical are really communication problems. A requirement someone read differently, an assumption nobody checked. So the biggest quality win usually isn't another automated test; it's getting the right people talking earlier.

What’s a hobby or interest do you have that might surprise your colleagues?

Probably not a shock to anyone, but I write code for fun outside of work as well. Right now that's a browser-based space strategy game I built from scratch, which is now live with actual paying players. Before that, it was capture-the-flag hacking challenges, basically legal breaking and entering for nerds. Same instinct as testing really, just find where it breaks.

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