A little bit about Me
I was born on May 20, 1992, in Verchniodniprovsk, Ukraine. Almost all my relatives were teachers at that time. My father was teacher of arts in a kindergarden, mother and her father were teachers of music, two grannies were teachers of math and English. Therefore I was tought by all my relatives from all sides begining from my early childhood.
At school I was one of the best pupils of our town and near villages. All years that I was studying at school I was winner of all town olympiads in technical disciplines. I liked to study, it was very interesting for me to learn math, physics, chemistry and such lessons as biology, astronomy, geography, etc. Also I was an active pupil of the school of arts, where my mother worked. I played piano, sang in the choir, attended drawing and pencilling classes, acted in the drama theatre. I had a lot of performances, a lot of learning hours and really little free time. But it doesn't mean that I had no friends or wasn't able to have fun. That kind of fun for me was sports! And most of my friends were sportsmen.
I was very thin as for my age, but I had great results in many kinds of sports. For example, two times I was the winner of our town in triathlon, I broke the records on the run for 3 km and on shooting. I was teammate of school's basketball team and town's volleyball team and we have won many competitions together. So my life at school time was very interesting and substantial. And in the end of my study at school I received a valuable prize as "The Best Graduate of the Verchniodniprovsk". It was amazing and very pleasurable for me!
It was very difficult for me to choose University and faculty for study. I was good in several areas and all of them were equally interesting for me. But math was more general and more applicable in the life. Moreover, I knew math better than other sciences. Therefore, I entered Mechanics and Mathematics department of the best university in Ukraine for that moment - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Due to small base of knowledge of my town it was little difficult for me to study first year. But after that, on the second year of study I felt like a fish in water. It was very interesting to learn unusual and even strange mathematical constructions, to see how it helps in different spheres of our life.
I was a good student and even better sportsman in university. I was teammate of the main volleyball team of University and captain of the department team. All years my team was champion of University in volleyball - I loved that. But volleyball was not unique kind of sports that I was doing. Also I participated at competitions in basketball, powerlifting, arm wrestling and triathlons. In University I have achieved big muscle mass and power characteristics. I was 107 kilos and was able to do squats with 180 kg, dead-lift with 220 kg and bench press with 130 kg. I felt like I was unbreakable and almighty but I was injured once and after that I can do only fitness.
Someone says that it is too early, someone - it is very cool, but I have married on the third year of study in the University. My wife is my classmate. She is very talented, very smart, very beautiful. And we love each other very much. I think that we are the perfect couple because our tempers are very similar. We both are a little bit crazy, both love math, both like to travel and, You know, both our mothers are teachers of music. I thank my wife for all she has done for me, I cant imagine my life without her.
At university it was time of traveling. All my childhood I dreamed to fly on the plane and to visit the USA. I am from a very poor family and I have never thought that this dream will ever come true. But after third year of study I went to Seattle, WA, by Work and Travel program and worked for seafoods factories in beautiful and wild Alaska. I was working about 16-20 hours a day, 7 days a week, it was hard, very hard. But Americans, nature, animals and new experience gave me more power that I needed! I brought a lot of money from USA but much more good impressions. My second great trip was to Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was a science conference about algebra and its applications. I was in Brazil three weeks and that was a great time! Note, that without Vladimir V. Sergeichuk this trip was impossible at all and without Pinchuk Fund I wasn't able to pay for this travel. But I won financial support and I thanks them for all that very much.
It is very hard to live in Kiev using only university scholarship. Therefore at the fourth year of study I got a job of Math Consultant in MBA Strategy. It was really great time, because my colleagues were beautiful smart young girls and it was very interesting and pleasurable to work with them. Moreover, my clients were smart successful people that could teach me a lot of useful things too. But my heart has always belonged to the programming. All time from my first lesson of programming at school to this second I have loved programming and I have wanted to create different programs and games. I like to see the result of my work and I like to create useful things. Programming helps me to be creative and accurate at the same moment. This project is intermediate stage in my growing as a programmer.