Nikitin Oleksandr Volodymyrovich

Phone: +38093 768-30-83
E-mail: wizzard0@gmail.com
Skype: wizzard0
ICQ: 362376762
Address: (ask by e-mail)

Goal: To create inspiring projects with the friendly team, 
enhance personal qualification while enhancing other people's life experience
On-site part-time (25-30h/week) positions preferred,
maybe full-time (flexible schedule required)

== General Development skills ==

- object-oriented, functional programming
- Meta-programming
- Thick client, Web applications, Rich internet applications
- user-extensible, scriptable programs
- Graphics programming
- Windows, Linux, PSP platforms
- Technical English (fluent), spoken (intermediate)

== Technology skills ==

- C#, from 2002, .NET architecture
- Python, from 2007
- DirectX, XNA, HLSL
- XHTML, CSS, JS, XML, XPath
- Silverlight, Flash
- Some knowledge of F#, ActionScript, C, Java, OCaml, Lisp
- Basics of security, cryptography and such :)

== Interests ==

- code analysis, code generation, cross-compilation
- game development, computer graphics
- sociology, psychology, natural language analysis
- asynchronous/parallel programming
- probabilistic computing
- information management and organization
- teach and be teached, help others :)

== Education ==

2006-present: National Technical University Of Ukraine
"KPI", faculty of Applied Mathematics, CS dept
- Will graduate in: 2010 (BS), 2012 (MS)
- Grades: mostly A/B, some C and a couple of D's
  during all 5 semesters attended to date
  (depending mostly on interest in the subject and
    my health conditions)
Mostly self-educated.

== Work experience ==

Aug 2009-current: Sunnet - Social network development
- PHP, JS/CSS, cross-compiling C#->PHP

Sep 2009: Terex - Digital oscilloscope software (project finished)
- Nothing particularly interesting, except the driver bugfixing/interop
- Windows, .NET, C, porting C->C#

May 2008-Aug 2009: Galaxy (Apocalypse) - MMORPG game development
Achievements to date:
- Server: script compiler, development/debugging tools, 
  Custom OODBMS development (dynamic scriptable code/data storage)
- gameplay programming, scripting (custom-designed language)
- Client: networking, graphics/animation library, bits of gui
(in Flash, Silverlight), some shader development

Feb 2007-Mar 2009: http://volia.com/ website support
(markup, typographics, translations)

== Other achievements ==

Oct 2009-current: Mentoring of the Imagine Cup contest team MTK

Oct 2008: Participation in the 'Programmania' contest, results at
http://programmania.com/Roster.aspx?competitionid=50 (Participant ID #600)
Notable results in Silverlight (3rd), Flash (14th), Multithreading (15th)
of about 2000 participants.

Feb 2008: Training of Kyiv "Doslidnyk" programming contest winners' team
     for the Ukrainian state programming contest.
(project review, advices, help with speech/presentation preparation)
results: two 1st places, one 2nd and 3rd out of 5 team members at the
Ukrainian state contest

Feb 2008: Judge in the Kyiv "Doslidnyk" programming contest

Jan 2007-present: Development of the collaboration/file sharing network
 (personal project, uses .NET Reflection, Networking)
project currently active, about 10 users (mostly friends)

Jun 2006-Dec 2007: Multiplayer shooter development (non-commercial, XNA),
project currently inactive (lack of art/content)

Mar 2006: 2nd place at Ukrainian state programming projects contest ("Doslidnyk"),
 Multimedia/Research automation section ( http://man.gov.ua )
 (Project for easy integration 3d visualization with existing
experimental\scientific software, C#/Directx)

2005: 3d space simulation game (C#/Directx)
project was not finished (stopped at techdemo stage)

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This file may be outdated. Latest version of my CV is available at 
http://hall.org.ua/halls/wizzard/about/cv/