--- eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true title: "CV" description: "Curriculum vitae" cover: /public/img/me.jpg --- doctype html html(lang='en') head include /head.pug //- Styles link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/cv.css') link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/posts.css') link(rel='stylesheet' href='/public/styles/projects.css') style(lang="css"). .history li { line-height: 1.3; } .history li:not(:last-child) { margin-bottom: 0.5rem; } body include /header.pug main section#about h2 Curriculum vitae p | Throughout my 10+ years of experience in Information Technology, | b I've tried everything | | from compiling COFF after LLIR lowering to designing a resilient ultra-scalable fleet of FAAS workers, from Substrate and IPFS to event-driven stock price prediction. p | Comprehending a technology is like surfing on the waves of technology trends, on the surface of the greatest whirlpool of singularity. Comprehension means fundamental, decomposed knowledge enough to build a solution at | b any scale | . p | For me, it is not about thoroughly learning API of yet another web framework, it is instead getting hands on the set of tooling a technology offers, so that I may choose the | mark b best framework suitable for the problem | | . If I were to compile my 10+ years of experience into one line, that would be the following: big Right tooling is paramount. p | Here is an incomplete list of technologies I've had experience with, in the order of encounter, starting back in 2013: Pascal,  a(href="https://wc3modding.info/pages/vjass-documentation/" target="_blank") vJass | , cJass, C, C++, Java, git,  a(href="https://libgdx.com/" target="_blank") LibGDX | , PHP,  a(href="https://unity.com/" target="_blank") Unity | , C#, Ruby, Telegram,  a(href="https://www.heroku.com/" target="_blank") Heroku | ,  a(href="https://dokku.com/" target="_blank") Dokku | , SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, JavaScript, Gulp, Grunt, Ruby On Rails,  a(href="https://hanamirb.org/" target="_blank") Hanami | ,  a(href="https://roda.jeremyevans.net/" target="_blank") Roda | ,   a(href="https://sequel.jeremyevans.net/" target="_blank") Sequel | ,  a(href="https://crystal-lang.org/" target="_blank") Crystal | , LLVM, Kubernetes,  a(href="https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/" target="_blank") Firecracker | ,  a(href="http://www.tinycorelinux.net/" target="_blank") Tiny Core Linux | ,  a(href="https://buildpacks.io/" target="_blank") buildpacks.io | , compiler development, machine learning,  a(href="https://www.tensorflow.org/" target="_blank") Tensorflow | , VueJS, TypeScript,  a(href="https://deno.land/" target="_blank") Deno | ,  a(href="https://ziglang.org/" target="_blank") Zig | ,  a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar" target="_blank") PEG | , Rust, EVM, Solidity,  a(href="https://substrate.io/" target="_blank") Substrate | , IPFS, ZKP, ChatGPT. ul.history(style="align-self: start;") li b 2013: | | It all began with Warcraft®️ III™️ maps, such as  a(href="https://xgm.guru/p/ufs/index" target="_blank") UFS Arena | . I did all the | b coding | | (cJass, a C-like domain-specific language) and | b design | , and my maps gained some popularity in the Russian-speaking community. li b 2014: | | First steps in commercial product development:  a(href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc8kjswj4fb0m0z/presentation.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank") Anogram | , a social anonymous service project. I did the | b design and backend coding | |in PHP. Unfortunately, the trend had quickly detoriated. li b 2015: ul li | In 2015, I released an Android game called | a(href="https://www.moddb.com/games/jumpin-sweeties/videos/trailer" target="_blank") Jumpin Sweeties | , written with | b LibGDX | . My family and friends liked it, but it didn't gain much traction. li | With | b Ruby on Rails | , I created a Bitcoin service for SMS number confirmations based on Google Voice, and after a couple of months sold it to a foreign customer for a good price. This marked the beginning of my journey as a | b solo entrepreneur | . li b 2016: ul li | This was the year of | b Telegram bots | | for me. First, I created | a(href="https://profitrobot.me/" target="_blank") @profitrobot | , which climbed pretty hign in the bot store rating. The bot allowed users to earn lunch money by completing CPA tasks and watching advertisements. Profitrobot became | a(href="/public/img/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world/bot-a-users-graph.jpg") quite popular, | | and I managed to sell it to another entrepreneur. li | In parallel I worked on | a(href="https://t.me/soundmemesbot" target="_blank") @soundememesbot | , which allowed its users to post sound memes in chats. Long story short, the bot became | mark massively popular all around the world | , but I did struggle to monetize it. Required moderation efforts made me shut it down. Also, later Telegram team silently | a(href="https://fragment.com/username/soundmemes" target="_blank") took away the @soundememes username | | and deleted the channel, which is definetely a lesson learned. | small BTW, I still have the source code and sounds database, sometimes thinking about launching it again with NFTs... li b 2017: | | Not all the projects are destined to become viable, such that was  a(href="https://telegra.ph/CashbackBot-09-16" target="_blank") CashbackBot | , a Telegram bot for | b cashback services | . I've spent a lot of time building it, but the project was never launched, nor it was sold. li b 2018: | | This year marked the beggining of my two-years journey in the | a(href="https://crystal-lang.org/" target="_blank") Crystal programming language | | ecosystem. I loved being a part of | mark open-source | | (check out my | a(href="https://github.com/vladfaust") GitHub | !). I created many libraries, including | a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/http") web framework | | and | a(href="https://github.com/onyxframework/sql") ORM | , and even | b contributed into the language | | itself. Also check out my | a(href="https://medium.com/@vladfaust/sorbet-is-cool-but-crystal-is-smoother-d16f4a920108" target="_blank") article | | comparing Crystal to Stripe's Sorbet. li b 2020: | | By 2020, I was fed with all the imperfections of the Crystal ecosystem, and decided to move and build | mark my own programming language | , Onyx. Oh, that was a ride. Long story short, too much for a single person. Yet, | b an enormous amount of computer science experience | | gained. Just look at the plethora of Onyx compilers I was working on: | a(href="https://github.com/fancysofthq/phoenix") C++ | , | a(href="https://github.com/onyxlang/rs") Rust | | and even | a(href="https://github.com/onyxlang/ts") TypeScript with Zig | ! The | a(href="/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20/") System Programming in 2k20 | | article is still one of the best I've written. li b 2021: | | mark Senior Crystal developer | | at | a(href="https://brightsec.com/" target="_blank") NeuraLegion | , an Israeli web security company. Nothing fancy, just some good old JSON APIs. li b 2022: | | I was employed by | a(href="https://byzantine.solutions/" target="_blank") Byzantine.Solutions | | on the role of a | mark Technical Due Diligence Officer | | . I inspected and contributed to some of the biggest crypto projects of that time. I also did some crypto project of my own (see below). li b 2023: | | The epiphany of AI had occured, my mind has cracked, and I've lost the sense of what is past and what is future. Yet I managed to work on some private AI projects at the role of a | mark full-stack+prompt engineer | . p | Check out my | a(href="https://wakatime.com/@vladfaust" target="_blank") profile at Wakatime | ; since I've began tracking my time in 2018, I've coded over 6000 hours, resulting in 1000 hours a year average. Take a look at this glorious chart of my favorite languages: figure(style="width: 100%") embed(src="https://wakatime.com/share/@vladfaust/92441f4f-e368-4bc3-a53b-9a3100aaa45c.svg") p | Currently I'm working on | mark AI character simulations | . My best stack is prompt engineering, custom AI model deployment, Typescript, VueJS, NodeJS, tRPC and Zod. | I extensively use | a(href="https://github.com/features/copilot" target="_blank") GitHub Copilot | | for code generation. p | See my blog posts (especially the | a(href="/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world") personal introduction | ) and projects below, check my | a(href="https://github.com/vladfaust") GitHub profile | , find my contacts in the header, and feel free to reach out if you want to work with me. p | Sincerely, br | Vlad. section#posts h2 Recent blog posts include /posts.pug section#projects h2 Project list include /projects.pug include /footer.pug