* Backend and infrastructure for MMO mobile games. Web API, Java, Spring, XML/JSON, Redis, MySQL, Amazon* Survived transition to the Java ecosystem, after 9 years in the .NET world

* Domain-Driven Design & TDD evangelist* Alternative .NET stack (ALT.NET) evangelist: NHibernate instead of DataAdapters, Castle MonoRail instead of ASP.NET WebForms, Castle Windsor, NServiceBus, NUnit and other community-driven libraries and frameworks* Convinced the team give Ruby on Rails a try - and we delivered the project on time and with quality!* Set up CI/CD infrastructure for company projects - no more Visual Studio's "publish to IIS" or manually copying DLLs to server's folders* Won a few debates with DBAs about where business logic should reside - app layer or stored procedures* Was designing initial technical solutions for newly started company projects* Learned iOS development (Objective C) on the go and built a PoC that eventually transformed into one of the top-rated mobile banking applications* Learned 1C and mastered Excel/VBA on the go - and actually fully automated the only job of the company's client!* Was in the office at nights or during weekends - helping the team to resolve production incidents and improve the observability of company projects* Also helped with hiring fellow software engineers

* Switched from the mobile Java to the backend .NET/C# ecosystem in no time* Figured out how exactly ASP.NET WebForms, ViewState and postbacks work* Successfully sustained mental health while writing and maintaining HTML/JavaScript for IE6* Learned COM, ActiveX, VBA and MS Excel

* Joined the company with zero Java experience and successfully blended in from the very first assignments* Learned J2ME and Doja mobile platforms: learned to code for devices with limited RAM and persistent storage* Learned the hard way how old mobile platforms were not consistent and not unified: having specific manufacturer/model-related behavior, bugs and crashes. And how to IF-THEN-ELSE them

* Wrote fun & entertaining articles for regular and special issues of the magazine, on the computer programming topic* Won a coding competition for the best software application (related to the theme of the magazine)