I am Ustynov Dmytro, a Python developer on the MriiaPro team. As Ari mentioned in his first post, after the Russian invasion, I was trying to bring my family to safe place, and had to abandon my home city of Dnipro. Luckily, as of May 2022, it is still a safe city in the very middle of Ukraine, holding on its shoulders Kharkov, South, Kherson and Donetsk branches of Ukraine’s Armed forces activities to liberate our country. But at the beginning of March I wasn’t sure how it could turn, especially when the horde had seized the nuclear station in Energodar, just 50 miles away from Dnipro.
I came to Ternopil in the West and met Alex here. We had never met eye-to-eye before, though we worked on the same healthcare project and met every day in online meetings. He told me about how he had found Ari digging into GitHub and LinkedIn and searching for new opportunities. I was really excited about his story, and I hope Alex can tell it better than I can. I was interested in how he described the new challenges, and because of my interest he invited me to join the team.
Of course I agreed.
I have always liked interesting and hard tasks. Before I started working in software, I worked in the rocket industry as a lead engineer and head of sector of automatisation and control systems for more than 10 years. | I have so many stories about testing rockets to tell, but it’s not the subject of this post: it is worth a separate series articles. I have a great deal of experience in rocket launches.
Do you know that famous picture, where Elon Musk is full of happiness and watching his Falcon Heavy perform its first flight? Well, I know exactly what he felt at that moment - I’ve been in his shoes.
OK, it’s not the same shoes exactly, because I am not an owner of the company that has created famous rockets, but I experienced that feeling when you are watching your famous rocket going up into the skies, “30 seconds, flight is normal … 40 seconds, engine pressure is normal … ”, and so on.
Well, creating perfect software is almost the same as launching famous rockets.
I really like to write perfect applications and watch them operating without errors. “Flight is normal” is the “honey for my ears”, if there is such idiom in English [editor’s note: “music to my ears”]. In Ukrainian it means to hear something awesome and pleasant that makes you feel happy.
And the first task I solved in MriiaPro was about finding similar bills, and I can describe more about the approaches we implemented in future posts.
May 2022,
Dmytro Ustynov