I am currently a senior engineer at CohesiveFT where I focus on distributed applications, scalable web platforms, rabbitmq messaging, ruby on rails, python and virtualization. At Cohesive we are building a content management system for software components, which allows you to assemble a custom application stack and download it in one of virtualization formats or deploy it to a cloud. Explore CohesiveFT Elastic Server On Demand platform now!
I am also involved in VPN-Cubed project, the first commercial solution that enables customer-controlled infrastructure and security in a cloud, across multiple clouds and between physical datacenter(s) and cloud(s).
I love reading (primarily economics and history), music, home improvement projects, bicycle, travel. One of my dreams is one day to build a home theater.
My favorite sports are tennis, ping-pong, badminton, pool (I am not particularly good in any of these though). I am a fan of Dynamo Kiev (soccer) of Ukraine and Chicago Bears (American football).
In technology, my interests include Linux, open source software, distributed applications, web technologies, RabbitMQ messaging, website operations, scalability and high availability. In my development toolbox you will find python, ruby, django, rails, shell, make, and occasionally sed or perl for text processing. On my TODO list I have erlang and several minor projects.
“Fubaredness Is Contagious” is the name of this blog. We came up with this phrase at Orbitz, where I was in engineering/operations. It’s not a threat but a reminder to take care of problems while they are small, instead of waiting till they grow and become unmanageable.
I am happily married, we have two cute children - a daughter and a son. We now live in Mundelein, Illinois, a nice town slightly-over-an-hour train ride away from downtown Chicago. When I need to be in the office, I usually catch a 7:47 train at Prairie Crossing station. Other days I work from home.
I earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in applied mathematics from Kiev Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine.
A picture of the tree that you see at the top of this page was taken some time in 2002 at Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, Illinois. A photo of me on the left was taken in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado in 2004.
If you would like to contact me, my address is my first name at this domain.