Coding is a game

Sergei’s coding past goes through a lot of C/C++, some PHP, a little bit of C#.NET and Java, straight to the blessings of Ruby and JavaScript. In fact, discovering Ruby-on-Rails and Ext JS (along with Apple and Mac OS X) back in 2007, was a kind of rediscovering a coding geek in himself – at the times he was thinking that he should never get back to coding anymore.

His career path starts with Applied Maths/Computer Science Master degree back in 1998 (Minsk, Belarus), followed by a year of research work in the area of image processing (Aachen, Germany), 3 highly demotivating years of coding at Philips Consumer Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands), 3 years of research in the area of multimedia networks at Philips Research (same place), one and a half year of doing Rails/Ext development at Innovate IT Logistics Services (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and finally a joyful switch to freelancing in 2008.

Apart of that, Sergei is not unfamiliar with web-design, HTML/CSS standards, and Linux server administration, although that won’t beat fun hours of creative coding.

Finally, his personality tends to seek more than simply living on one place, so his primary source of life energy, along with doing web-development, is traveling and exploring the world (and himself in that context if that matters). Sergei loves traveling as much as he does coding. As a side result of it, he’s (rather) fluent in the following languages: Russian, English, Spanish, Dutch and German.