What I’m doing now

Working as a Head of Engineering

Still hiring a Vue front-end lead, and a senior PHP/Laravel back-end engineer. If you speak Russian and meet the criteria, please apply.

Moving to Portugal

Got approved for the Portugal startup program I published a guide on. Second December we start a week long car trip to move from Belgrade to Sesimbra. Actually, the move and the related stuff have been taking most of my time and effort besides my job recently.

Developing Mellon

It is a local-first password manager I submitted to the startup program. I published a prototype, and write articles on dev process.

Learning Vue

Before, I was familiar with React as a frontend tool mainly. Now I have a team writing Vue, and I'm playing the lead role until I hire someone. I stocked up on some stuff during the Black Friday sale. Now I'm planning to take Vue School, Mastering Pinia, Mastering Nuxt and Adam Wathan's Component Design courses.

What I’m doing as usual

Living a family life

In January, Nastya and I got married. We spend a lot of time together, travel, and love each other. In February, a pineapple green-cheeked parakeet flew to us from the street. We kept him and named Zhablik. Now we can't imagine how we lived without this sweet little pie.

What I've been doing previously

Studying a DevSecOps course

All my knowledge about infrastructure, except for the Linux theory and practice, I acquired as a self-taught guy. Despite my experience administration k8s cluster or setting up proxy package registry, it will be useful for me to gather my knowledge and get new ideas to improve CI/CD pipelines and overall security.

Reading Kleppmann and Spider-man

I'm rereading that book with the boar and reading Untold Tales of Spider-Man for the first time — a huge comics series.

Studying a podcasts course

I was learning from the most famous studio of Russian-language podcasts. I had been so inspired by David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs that I was thinking of recording episodes regarding that topic. Yet, I couldn't convert my insiration into a single episode during the course. Hope to fix it one day.

Looking for a job

Looking for a fully remote position or one with an office in Portugal. Seeking for CTO, Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager roles. Hands-on with the JS stack. Check my LinkedIn post for the details.

Studying a comics course

My wife and I took an offline comics course. As a result, I published my first comics, RU — an adaptation of the investigation of istories.media about the connection between Telegram and the russian federal security service.

Learning English

In May, Alvin, my previous tutor, left to learn Python and data analysis. In June, I started studying with Ian. He sends me Jimmy Carr's shows. I send him clips with David Mitchell. Seems we've found common ground. Last time I learned that when brits tap their noses, they mean “keep this secret”.