Hi 🖖 I'm River

Minimalist vector drawing of a person, slightly smiling, with dark hair, glasses, and a beard, wearing blue shirt.

Full-Stack Web Developer

With over 12 years of software development experience, I help organizations and individuals employ Generative AI technologies in ethical ways.

Tech

  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Node.js

Contacts

Organizations

Over the years, I worked for a number of companies. With work being a major part of most people's lives, I'm grateful for time with every single one on the list: professional experience, friendships made, and many opportunities to make a difference.

Viamo Accenture Outlier Sberbank Yandex Admitad OCRV

ReadME

Here's some information about me. It's not intended to be a comprehensive instruction manual: we're all different and have own unique styles. Knowing each other may help us have better interactions and lead to a more positive impact while working together.

My style

  • I like to keep things in order: work documented and accounted, E-mails answered, meeting minutes posted
  • I enjoy clean architecture but can appreciate well-documented shortcuts when necessary
  • It's important for me to understand the broader picture to stay motivated

What I value

  • Initiatives backed by good intentions
  • Finding alignment on goals and objectives
  • Open-mindedness and productive discussions

What energizes me

  • Unconventional creative tasks
  • Clever and precise designs
  • Lighthearted engineering humor

How to best communicate with me

  • Tag me in issue and version control management systems
  • Send me DMs for urgent matters
  • Invite me in E-mail chains to let me have all the context and get up to speed faster

How I make decisions

  • Is this what we really want?
  • Quick brainstorming, the wildest ideas welcome
  • Balance positive impact against time and efforts

How to help me

  • I'm open to informal language (even if we don't know each other yet), if you are comfortable with it
  • Feel free to get straight to the point, I'll ask for clarifications if needed

Personal

I identify as a non-binary person and use pronouns they/them. I also stand in solidarity with my lovely 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ and 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans folks.

Travels

I come from Tver', Russia 🇷🇺, and immigrated to Canada 🇨🇦 in 2023. I have been fortunate to visit many places across the world: Greece 🇬🇷, Egypt 🇪🇬, Montenegro 🇲🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Germany 🇩🇪, and Thailand 🇹🇭.

These experiences have shaped who I am today, and I treasure memories from each destination.

Hobbies

I enjoy listening to analog media such as Vinyl records 📀 and Audio tapes 📼, which I often find in thrift stores. I also love drawing traditional 🎨 and furry art 🦊

If I was to do something other than software engineering, I would likely do bookkeeping or office management.