I am a Security Engineer at a major fintech company. I've been passionate about coding and hacking since early 2000s. I can code in dozens of programming languages, but Rust has earned a special place in my heart and become my go-to language. I am also partial to Zig and Bun. I use Zed as my code editor and terminal (though I am excited about Lapce). I love writing exploits. My areas of expertise include network programming (zero-copy async IO), distributed high load systems, SNA. I love to experiment and find new ways to improve.

I was born in Moscow, Russia in 1990. Since early 2022 I've been living on the coast of Southern Vietnam. My beloved father was a theoretical physicist and book writer. My grandfather was a mathematician and educator.

My hobbies are travelling, motorcycling, learning languages and translating stuff.

Some of my favourite...

Movies

  • The Long Good Friday (1980)
  • The Very Same Munchhausen (1980)
  • The Pokrovsky Gate (1983)
  • Good Morning, Vietnam(1987)
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
  • L.A. Confidential (1990)
  • Dogma (1999)
  • Dogville (2003)
  • Match Point (2005)

Actors

  • Jack Nicholson
  • Robin Williams
  • Liam Neeson
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Michael Douglas
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Steve Martin
  • Colin Farrell
  • Gian Maria Volonté
  • Lee Van Cleef
  • Anthony Hopkins

Movie directors

  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Damiano Damiani
  • Sergio Leone
  • Peter Bogdanovich
  • Jos Stelling

Music

  • Metallica
  • Black Sabbath
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • Viktor Tsoi
  • Sergey Kuryokhin

Stand-up comedians

  • Bill Maher
  • George Carlin
  • Robin Williams
  • Dara Ó Briain
  • Nikita Shevchuk

Books

  • "God & Golem, Inc." by Norbert Wiener
  • "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins
  • "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer