Born February 13, 1978 in Moscow. Currently live in Sammamish, WA. Work as a Platform Architect at AlphaSights.
Programmer, software architect, mentor. Interested in open source, Web development, programming languages and methodologies. I am the principal author of highlight.js library.
I like brewing Chinese tea, cooking and running.
Happily married to Elena Sagalaeva (a.k.a @alenacpp).
This site hosts my blog on technology.
The best way to contact me is by email: maniac@softwaremaniacs.org. Usually I answer all the mail though at times it can take rather long.