Hi, I'm Alex.
This blog is my personal take on human life versus life in IT — their intersections, contrasts, and what stands out about them. It's really about my escape from what I consider the absurd aspects of the Russian mentality into the world of technology and IT. In a way, it's a form of emigration. I'm a professional software engineer specializing in PHP and Ruby development, as well as Linux server maintenance, and I want to leave Russia permanently.
Professional skills:
- PHP, Ruby on Rails, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, XML, JSON, CSS, HTML.
- Create an eCommerce website; Prestashop, OpenCart, ModX, Magento, Joomla, VirtueMart, K2Store, JoomShopping, etc. Without Bitrix!
- Creating portals and websites - social networks, websites vacancies, dating sites.
- Development of extensions for the popular cms.
- Maintained a distributed Unix infrastructure, Linux Administration (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, OpenSuse Leap/Tumbleweed).
- Heroku, AWS (including Cloud formation and Cloud-init) and VMware as Infrastructure. Git for source code.
