“Yury and I started working together when Meltwater acquired Icerocket in 2011 (https://www.meltwater.com/press/meltwater-acquires-blogsearch-leader-icerocket-to-extend-leadership-in-social-media-intelligence/). Icerocket was a fairly popular blog and social media search engine, of which Yury was the architect and lead developer. I was member of Meltwater's content services team. For the next 3 or so years Yury, I, and our manager Matthias Reik, worked on the integration of Icerocket's functionalities into Meltwater's products. During that time Yury and I became good friends. Yury is a brilliant frontend and backend developer. He had built most of Icerocket's frontend and backend - both of which fairly complex, and occupying ~30 machines - mostly on his own. After he became a part of Meltwater, and had to work on complex integration issues, he remained very fast and efficient. With Yury we share a number of design principles, mostly based around the idea of keeping things simple and pragmatic: - keeping the number of layers of indirection to a minimum - working with the raw data rather than abstractions on top of it - minimizing protocol - avoiding third party tools for tasks that can be done by hand, especially when it comes to administration and orchestration In addition to being an expert web developer and Linux administrator, Yury also has experience with low-level development, and even game development: as a hobby project, he developed a game (http://warpdoor.com/2015/03/31/nerdy-dwarf-yury-smolsky/) that received some positive feedback. I highly recommend Yury for any work that involves efficiently and pragmatically architecturing systems and writing code that works.”
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I love programming & solving hard problems. 20+ years in the field.
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WunderGraph
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[Coursera] Cryptography I - Stanford University
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