It all started with the Macintosh Classic in early nineties. My mother is a chemist and at the time she worked for drugs research center. I often visited her laboratory and with childish curiosity studied everything that met my eyes. I don't know how did computer from Apple get there, but playing with it fascinated even better than games with the kids outside. This kind of feeling ran deep and advance me every time I sit in front of a computer.

In 1996, I went to the school of physical and mathematical sciences at the university, where along with the obvious physics and mathematics, we've studied Computer Science. Apart from algorithms and data structures I learned about Microsoft DOS, Turbo Pascal, and wrote my first programs: calculation of quadratic equations, Tetris game, maze generator.

In 1997, I've got my first personal computer with Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor and Windows 95 operating system! Same day I renamed one of system folders into a more appropriate, it seemed to me, name and unwittingly fell into a three-day quest reinstalling OS and restoring the system.

University gave me a unique community of people, passionate about programming, computer architecture, and laid a serious foundation, without which I wouldn't have become a good specialist.

I went to work as a .NET + MS SQL programmer immediately after graduation in 2004, at a company engaged in dietary supplements — developed desktop application for financial accounting, administered company's website and database with information about 60,000 customers. And in 2005, I finally landed a job at my first Software Development company. Here I started to spend more time with web technologies, and met experts of the highest level: many of them now working at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Airbnb.

I started to feel strong desire to build my own startup after one and a half years of working in IT outsourcing. I used to develop programs for the community, but it was mainly desktop applications for Windows, which I created myself in spare time. The World Wide Web showed new opportunities and with partner we've done some amazing projects, like Listex or Port.im. We've got through all stages of development, lived in Silicon Valley, met investors, gathered feedback, participated in various accelerators, hackathons, technical conferences, meetups. Became a real startup guys, to put it shortly.

My other great passions are traveling, mountaneering and cycling. Most memorable journeys are climbing highest point of Europe Mount Elbrus (from South, North and West), climbing Mount Kazbek, hiking to Everest Base Camp from Nepal side, single bike ride from Antalya to Istanbul by the West coast of Turkey and bike ride around Iceland. Over the past eight years I've visited around 50 countries and love extreme conditions, minimal comfort and unforgettable experiences.

I'm always open for new connections. Feel free to contact me ☺