About Ivan Kurmanov

my face, a photo

I’m a lonesome web developer, sitting on a chair in an eastern-european country of Belarus.  I do web applications for living.

Also I love collecting, validating, processing and spitting out huge amounts of metadata.  That’s what I do for pure fun, ha-ha-ha.

I’m part of the RePEc team and currently engaged in ACIS project. I’ve put a lot of effort into making RePEc Author Service a better place.

I work with Thomas Krichel, Christian Zimmermann, Sune Karlsson, Bob Parks, Kit Baum, Bill Goffe and some other nice people.

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For some reason I took a five-year study at a university here in Minsk and got a degree in Economics.  I’ve never worked as an economist, but studying was certainly an enlightening experience.  And I met a few nice girls there, which was not bad at all. :-)

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I love English language.  I keep learning it for fun and for work.  That’s another thing I do for living: translating English into Russian and back.

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But here are some things, that I study for my professional self: