Posts tagged #media
Interview on Founder Wisdom Podcast
I was invited by Charles Cormier to appear on the Founder Wisdom podcast, where we had a deep conversation about my journey as a technical founder, bootstrapping DataUnlocker, and my perspectives on the crypto industry. What We Discussed The conversation covered quite a few topics: DataUnlocker and the Analytics Problem. I explained how websites lose 20–50% of their user data because ad blockers categorize analytics scripts as

Talk at the University of Surrey
It was a great pleasure to be invited to talk at the University of Surrey, UK. It was a 1.5-hour talk with Q\&A for graduating students in crypto. Unfortunately the presentation itself wasn't recorded properly and was lost permanently :/ But what wasn't lost is the Q\&A session at the end, which is linked down below :) The topic of my presentation was: What is it like to be a crypto company? I talked through past experiences in multiple crypto companies I worked at, their successes and fail
Teaching in Saudi Arabia's hospitals
Saudi Arabia became my 49th country, and it was a work trip rather than tourism - though I got to experience plenty of both. I came on behalf of InterSystems to conduct database technology courses for local medical groups, a unique opportunity to see a country that only recently opened to tourists. Saudi Arabia is undergoing a transformation that's hard to overstate. \[Vision 2030]\(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi\_Vis
Databases & Web Training in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman
Meeting new people, this time in Muscat, Oman! It is a great pleasure to be welcomed by Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, the university which works with InterSystems technologies. I provided a one-week training for them, which included InterSystems technologies and a basic web course. As always, I spent a bit more time in Oman for traveling and doing creative things!
Speaking at BlockchainUA about my Blockchain Solution
This year I've made a great solution for the very common blockchain problem. I am open-sourcing this solution and will be speaking about it at BlockchainUA - the biggest blockchain and crypto-related conference in Ukraine. I've been invited to speak on the tech stage, which was the main stage at the conference. See you there! Links \[My Presentation]\(https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BeAcIyH9IW
Victory at ETHCapeTown Blockchain Hackathon!
EthCapeTown is a global hackathon organized by ETHGlobal and dedicated to Ethereum blockchain. I came up with an interesting idea which our team could implement in terms of the global Ethereum hackathon. The service which we were aiming to build allows anyone to benefit, as well as DreamTeam, who is sponsoring our participation in the world's biggest blockchain hackathon. \*\*\[And we've mad
Dev Challenge 13 Final: Presentation about Blockchain Application in Practice
I was invited to Dev Challenge 13 to share our experience implementing blockchain solutions. Many thanks to everyone involved in this event! I appreciate everything: from the organization to the audience that listened and asked so many great questions. It has been almost a year since I joined DreamTeam, a young startup building the future of esports. I've developed an Ethereum-based decentralized solution there from scratch. We've gained a lot of

Database & Web Trainings for Dubai Healthcare Organizations
It was a pleasure to be invited by InterSystems to conduct a series of courses on databases and web technologies. In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, InterSystems has quite a lot of customers who use their technology. That summer, they were about to add a couple of new hospitals and clinics to their list, and these people needed training. For me personally, this was an exciting opportunity to meet new people, get familiar with the culture, and see the city! Dubai was
Organizing Google Hash Code 2018 Coding Competition
This year, as well as the previous year, I organized a hub for Google Hash Code 2018. We've got a competition with around 18 teams from our hub, including my own team! I and my friends prepared co-working space Belka for the event; this year we've got some great goodies from Google. Many thanks to Google, everybody who helped me with organization and all the peop
Explaining Blockchain Technology in Blockchain School
I learned a lot about blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the second half of the year and wanted to share my knowledge with others. I had a great opportunity to do this at Kyiv's Blockchain School, which was hosted at our Student's Space Belka. I organized a micro-lecture alongside other sessions to share blockchain technology basics with 100+ students! This helped them understand the core concepts required to continue practicing
Presenting My iKnow Entity Browser Project at InterSystems Kyiv Meetup
This was the first time InterSystems held a meetup in Ukraine. During this meetup I was presenting InterSystems iKnow technology and my own project, iKnow Entity Browser. InterSystems iKnow is an embeddable technology that enables developers to gain insight from unstructured data and use it to

Judging Golden Byte 2017
Golden Byte 2017 is an international IT championship where I have been taking part last year and won. This year I was invited to be in the jury committee in the NoSQL Expert nomination! We were presented 7 great projects at the international final of the competition. All of them were worthy, but three of them were the best. The third place went to the Quasar, a man who created an activity logger for desktop computers. The second place went to TheLab team of three, wh
Organizing Google Hash Code 2017 Coding Competition
There is one exciting challenge from Google named Google Hash Code. In short, it is a worldwide online olympiad for programmers, where people form their teams and compete against others during the online qualification round, which lasts for near 4 hours and happens in exact same moment for all the teams. To have more fun, Google suggests organizing teams into \[hubs]\(https:
Organizing Course and Hackathon for Students in Czechia
More students are waiting for their programming experience! This time, InterSystems corporation with myself as a teacher organized a course in Europe in Brno, Czechia. I was teaching a basic course of InterSystems Caché technology, web technologies and basic programming practice. Some of the students had no prior programming experience at all, and during the one-week course of intensive training wi
Teaching Teachers in Amity University, India
Amity University in Noida, Delhi is the biggest private university of India. This winter was a busy one for me: I came there to spread knowledge of InterSystems technologies! During one week, I was teaching InterSystems Caché DBMS for the teachers and professors of AIIT faculty of the Amity University. This was my first trip to India,
Teaching Web Technologies in Moscow's Government Company
The government company MosVodoKanal, which provides water for all of Moscow, needed a web-development course based on InterSystems technologies. I was the teacher for the company's engineers and a manager. It was a three-day course during which I introduced not only InterSystems technologies, but all the trends in web development as well. The feedback was exceptionally positive and I enjoyed this time in Moscow with a lot of stories
Teaching Students in Czech Republic
It was an exciting trip to the Czech Republic, where I handled my first international course. I was teaching Czech students to use InterSystems technologies and, when we finished the basic course, we added a "bonus" web course and wrote two more web applications — an online bulletin board with the authorization key retrieval from the super server, and a WebSockets chat. It was fun and a tremendous experience both for me and the students.
Teaching in Ukrainian State Enterprise
This social empirical project was organized by The University of Manchester. The goal was to research the capability of Ukrainians to work in small groups composed of randomly selected people. Three other participants and I were placed in a dedicated room with a supervisor, where we discussed the major problems and potential solutions for Ukrainian universities.
Internship in the United States
It was my first trip to United States. It was a tremendous experience! The internship was held by InterSystems international corporation in Cambridge, MA, but I have also visited New York and a Cape Cod island. I was staying there for three months. Around 25 interns and I were practicing with the corporation's internal projects during the Summer in the biggest corporation's office located at \[One Memorial Drive]\(https:

Talking About NodeJS in My University
With the help of my friend Dima, this event became a reality. At the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", my friend Timur and I organized an open technical meeting for anyone interested, introducing NodeJS technology. We spoke for about two hours to around 150 attendees about the future of JavaScript, NodeJS, and the power of these tools. The presentation of our lecture is available on \[Sl

Victory in the International IT Championship
I took part in the international IT championship "Golden Byte", organized by the computer academy "Step" in Kyiv and won third place in the "NoSQL Expert" category with my project GlobalsDB Admin. There is also my article published about this tool. A short video presentation of me and my project is availa

My First Teaching Experience
It was an open self-organized web courses for the students of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". Started from scratch, me and my friends Andriy, Kolya, Misha and Dima gathered around 120 motivated students and divided them into 4 groups (1, 2, 3, \[