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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 in, their success and failur
Teaching in Saudi Arabia's hospitals
Saudi Arabia is a very unique country. I was pleased to come here on behalf of InterSystems to conduct a few courses for local groups at: International Medical Center Hospital, Jeddah Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh This was a quick course for database-related technology.
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 will provide a one-week training for them, which includes InterSystems technologies training and a basic web course. As always, I will spend 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 a tech stage, which was the main stage at the conference. See you there! Links \[My Presentation]\(https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BeAcIyH9IWVy
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 the Dev Challenge 13 to tell about our experience in implementing Blockchain solutions. Many thanks to everyone related to this event! I appreciate everything: from organization to the audience that listened to me and asked a lot of questions. It is almost a year since I joined DreamTeam, a young startup building the future of esports. I develop an Ethereum-based decentralized solution there, from scratch. We've got a lot of expe

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. This Summer they were about to join a couple of new hospitals and clinics to their list, and these people needed a training. For me personally, this was an exciting opportunity to meet new people, get familiar with the new culture and see the city! Duba
Organizing Google Hash Code 2018 Coding Competition
This year, as well as in 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 people
Explaining Blockchain Technology in Blockchain School
I learned a lot about Blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the last half of the year, and wanted to share my knowledge with others. I had a good chance to do this on Kiev's Blockchain School, which was hosted in our Student's Space Belka. So I organized a micro-lecture along other lectures to share the Blockchain technology basics with 100+ students in the school! This helped them to understand basic concepts and knowledge requi
Presenting My iKnow Entity Browser Project on InterSystems Kiev Meetup
This is the first time when InterSystems made a meetup in Ukraine. During this meetup I were presenting InterSystems iKnow technology and my own project, iKnow Entity Browser. InterSystems iKnow is a embeddable technology that enables developers to gain insight from unstructured data and use i

Judging Golden Byte 2017
Golden Byte 2017 is an international IT championship where I have been taking part in 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,
Organizing Google Hash Code 2017 Coding Competition
There is one exiting 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 were not experienced in programming at all, and during the one-week course of intensive trainings w
Teaching Teachers in Amity University, India
Amity University in Noida, Delhi is the biggest private university of India. This winter was hot to me: I came there to spread the 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, and
Teaching Web Technologies in Moscow's Government Company
The government company, MosVodoKanal, which provides a water for the whole Moscow required a web-development course, based on the InterSystems technologies. I was a teacher for the engineers and a manager of the company, and it was a three-day course during which I introduced not only the InterSystems stuff, but all the trends in web technologies as well. The feedback was exceptionally positive and I enjoyed this time in Moscow with
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 with the basic course we made a "bonus" web course and have written 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 is organized by The University of Manchester, and the goal of this project was to make a research over the capability of ukrainians to work in small groups, created from the random people. Me and 3 more persons were closed in a dedicated room with the supervisor, and we were discussing the major problems and resolutions of 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. Me and around 25 more interns were practicing with the corporation's internal projects during the Summer in the biggest corporation's office located at \[One Memorial Drive]\(

Talking About NodeJS in My University
With the help of my friend Dima this event become true. In the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute", me and my friend Timur gathered an open technical meeting for anyone interested, introducing a NodeJS technology. We were speaking for about two hours for around 150 visitors about the future of JavaScript, NodeJS and the power of this tools. The presentation of our lecture is available on

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

My First Teaching Experience
It was an open self-organized web courses for the students of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev 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, \[