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The essense

I’m 22. I’m a successful programmer, specializing in web-development, but with great interest to the robotics and AI.

Childhood

The story goes back to 16 of January, 1987 when I was born. My father was a military sailor, specialising in electronics. My mother was a teacher at school. In 1990 I’ve got a sister, mother took a long leave and father gave up military, continued working as an engineer and started his business in 1992.
I was always interested in different technical things and liked different crafts. I saw computer when I was 6, father bought it for the work (he had essential number of accounting in his business, but had to do everything himself), so computer with accounting software was very helpful. So, since I saw the computer, was dreaming of creating programs. Nobody could teach me this, so shortly I gave up the idea and only played games. In a year father got an office and computer was moved there. They were very expensive then (can you imagine $100 for the SIMPLEST keyboard?!), so they used it just for work. There I got acquainted with internet in 1998 (approximately), it was very simple then – just HTML pages, the most advanced things were search engines. I remember when I learned how to search there, I was spending lots of time there searching for different space-related things.

Becoming a programmer

Time passed, I was studying in a good school, that specialized in English (that’s how I learned it), mainly I was interested in Math, Physics and was learning English because I felt I’ll need it in the future When I was 14, father presented me computer as a new year gift. I was so exited with it! Sure, I spent lots of time playing games (Diablo II was the favourite one), but in a year I gave it up. The reason was that I read a book “The Turing Option” by Harry Harrison and started dreaming of creating AI. Sure, I had to learn programming. So I searched the internet, found some tutorials (it was so little of good ones 7 years ago), started with Pascal, then moved to Delphi. I spent 2 years till I finished school studying Delphi and thought that web is silly But then I’ve got interested in earning money and I was advised to learn either PHP or C#.Net. I chose PHP because it seemed more simple.

Who am I now

In a year I’ve got my first client (dating site), and got $100 for it. That was so cool!!! I created lots of them since then, becoming more and more skilful. Now I’m a freelancer, mainly working with customers from UK and looking forward to get a promising contract from one of them

Now I live in Nikolaev, Ukraine. It is a 500 000 city which was founded in 1778 as a Russian shipyard.

I study in the Chornomorsky (Black Sea) State University in the name of Petro Mohyla, my speciality is “intellectual systems of decision-making”. We learn lots of interesting stuff there (that’s why I’ve got interested in robotics).

My Chevrolet Lacetti 1.6

I have a nice girlfriend, which I am going to get married with, in August. She’s a great person – beautiful, very smart, self-organized and committed. Although she specializes in English and economics, she is very broad-minded and we can always find something to discuss. I really enjoy being together with her

We have a car, which I’m very proud of – Chevrolet Lacetti (2008). I took a loan to get it, but I really like driving and going somewhere, so I don’t regret I have it. Before that I had Lada 2106 (1995)

I really like nature and photography. That’s why I go hiking when I have time for this. Usually it is Crimea cause my grandfather lives there and I have place where to stay You can take a look at my album I took in the Crimea last year on my facebook page.

My future plans are:

• Get good stable income (it became unstable after Nov 2008 when crisis appeared to be severe in our country)
• Learn English better to communicate with ease
• Get married and have an excellent honeymoon (hope in UK)(it was not in UK, but it was really excellent!)
• Turn this blog into something really useful and maybe monetize it then
• Finish university (I’ve graduated on the 5th of March 2010. Now I have diploma in “Intellectual systems of decision-making”)
• Move to some other country after my wife then graduates from university (2.5 years left). I’m considering only English-speaking countries since I know only English, UK is a quite probable choice

My contacts

• Email: konstantin.mirin(at)gmail.com
• ICQ: 230373542
• Skype: jedideveloper
• Find me on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php
• Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/KonstantinMirin

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