Hi, I’m Vlad 👋🏻 👨🏼‍💻

Software development is my passion, and I am mad about new technologies and approaches. I always want to learn something new and am ready to teach others and share my experience. I strive to ensure that the architecture I design is a work of art and that the code I write is as clear as possible.

I am a big fan of open-source software, and I am always open to open-source ideas and offers. My libs were downloaded more than 250k times, and I am proud of that.

(Sadly I suspect a lot of these downloads were from bots and crawlers).

While currently I am interested in Rust, still there are many languages and technologies I am interested in/familiar with.

I do not neglect AI usage in our daily work as it makes us more productive and helps to solve routine tasks faster, but still I am trying to keep my content AI-free as much as possible.

Stack:

• Ruby/Rails, 8 years of experience (mostly backend, but familiar with erb, haml, slim, etc.)
• Go, 5 years of experience (w/ or w/o frameworks, does not matter, usually wrote microservices)
• Rust, 1.5 years of experience (still have a lot of improvements to make, but mostly had experience with blockchain/web development)
• Blockchain/Crypto (had experience integrating blockchain networks, working with smart contracts and etc. Mostly with Solana/Anchor)
• Rabbitmq/Kafka (can differ their topologies xD)
• Postgres (+still remember some MySQL)
• Elasticsearch (multi-level nested aggregations and all that stuff)
• Redis (caching, persistent storage, etc.)
• Docker (can write dockerfiles, compose, swarm, k8s, i.e. musthave)
• Kubernetes (had experience with helm + was working as CRE/SRE)
• CI/CD (can write pipelines, had experience with github actions, gitlab ci, circleci, etc.)
• Of course, this list could be infinite as I am always open to new technologies and approaches. If you have coin, khajiit has wares.

Among my hobbies are:

• Powerlifting
  • 105kg bw, 561kg total
• Learning languages
  • Currently learning Spanish and Japanese, after that will work on Latin/Indo-European languages
• Reading
  • I really would recommend to read something from https://press.stripe.com

Other

• Member of the Diesel.rs team
• Writer @ EffectiveProgrammer, AI Advances, IT Next, Level Up Coding
• My YouTube Channel
• Hackathon winner x2 (2015, 2025)

Talks:

• RubyConf India 2025, Jaipur – MCP Security: Real-world Risks & Defenses
• Prompt Engineering Conference 2025, London - Prompt Driven Development (PDD) or the Art of Prompting

Books:

• WIP

Contact me if you have any questions or offers.

telegram: @wowinter13 (actually I am @wowinter13 all over the internet)

email: gotta.go.vlad@gmail.com