A Passionate Developer

I'm a polyglot programmer excited about solving complex engineering challenges using the best tool for the job. I pride myself on code quality, stability, performance, and extensibility of the projects I develop.

I'm 38 years old, and I have an awesome 15-year-old son Alex and my amazing wife, Tatiana. We had immigrated to the US from Russia in 2012,  and finally a US citizen.

Battle-tested Professional

During my professional career as a software engineer, architect, and tech lead, I've been responsible for developing and supporting long-term multiple greenfield projects. I worked on projects ranging from podcasting platforms, version control hosting, continuous integration, and deployment solutions, internal business analytics and server administration tools, to architecting and implementing world-class level desktop applications.

My passion is to turn abstract visions into a technical reality, and I learned to do so with limited time and resources, picking up necessary skills as I move forward to the goal.

How I Started

I was born in Norilsk, Russia, in 1984. One of the most polluted cities in the world, and crazy cold to boot.
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The first time when I got into programming was when I was 12, back in 1996, as part of an advanced school program. When I was 15, I was a part of a few popular open-source projects in PHP and had done a few projects in Visual Basic for my school. By 16, I had my first successful commercial project, an ad network that was later acquired by a competitor.

Since I was 14, I was obsessed with Linux and used it in my day to day until I discovered macOS. I'm still a big open-source, GNU, and EFF supporter.