Hire Me

I’m a software engineer, doing various development and consultancy work on contract. I believe in engineering applied to great ideas.

“Whatever the mind … can conceive it can achieve” – W. Clement Stone

I do things like:

technical consulting
requirements gathering
user interface design (incl. drawing mockups)
planning development strategy
architecture design
gathering a team of developers
leading them
testing, code review, debugging
planing infrastructure and deployment

I share these principles of agile software development:

release early, release often
customer should be involved with development, and they should talk often
small teams are preferable

and that’s how I work with my team(s). But I know these principles are not always applicable.

I wrote and debugged large amounts of Perl code. Some Python, JavaScript and XSLT, CSS. I know how to deal with Unicode and how to handle multi-lingual data. I’ve used PostgreSQL, MySQL and Berkeley DB. I administer Amazon Elastic Cloud configurations with EBS, S3 and RDS. I am a Linux guy, preferring a Mac for daily work, but also using a windows PC at times.

Among the less usual things that I have done is writing perl code in real-time for a customer, and immediately explaining how it works (via Skype and screen sharing).

Failures are a key to learning, and I’ve had a few. I’m open for new ones. :)

I live in Belarus — in Eastern Europe. I speak English fluently. I sometimes help as an English-Russian translator.

Email me at ik@ahinea.com.