About Ivan Kurmanov

my face, a photo from 2004

I’m a lonesome software engineer and project manager, sitting on a chair in an eastern-european country of Belarus.  I do web applications design and development for living. As well as a bunch of other things: managing a team, setting priorities, identifying bottlenecks, cooking toasts and hot chocolate.

I’m interested in orderly engineering process, all the way from requirements gathering to functional design to architecture to testing, verification and validation. System engineering.

I used to love collecting, validating, processing and spitting out huge amounts of metadata.  That’s what I did.

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

At that time I worked 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: