CURRENT MISSION

To squeeze some benefit from the location-independent character of my work by traveling a bit.

ABOUT ME

Hi! I am a telecommunications engineering consultant specialising in VoIP-related software work. I was born in Moscow, Russia, but emigrated with my family to the United States when I was six years old.

My permanent home is in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, but in recent times I have enjoyed spending some time elsewhere domestically, and abroad, taking advantage of the rather location-independent character of my work. I also like to visit my extended family in Yerevan, Armenia, where I lived from Aug 2012 until Jan 2013. Now, I am in Berlin for two months, until the end of April 2013.

I candidly confess that I am a spoiled urban dweller and stick mostly to urban spaces, preferring attractive walking opportunities and proximity to major arteries of public transit. I do like to go outside, but I'm not a very nature/outdoorsy/hiking kind of guy, although I've certainly done that stuff, and sometimes quite enjoyed it.

I have an abiding, long-standing interest in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, and in contemporary Latin American history. I've been studying Spanish since 1998. To say I'm "really good" at these things may be a stretch, but I try. I also got a lot out of my limited, but not altogether trivial travels to there (México, Argentina, Uruguay). I didn't get to spend nearly as much time in Argentina as I'd like, but I felt very at home there, in terms of the people's values and priorities. I most certainly intend to return.

PHILOSOPHY

I used to have a loquacious answer to this, but as I get older, I become allergic to cosmological, grandiose ideas.

Interests

Economics, philosophical issues, people, society, current events, technology.

I have an abiding, long-standing interest in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, and in contemporary Latin American history. I've been studying Spanish since 1998. To say I'm "really good" at these things may be a stretch, but I try. I also got a lot out of my limited, but not altogether trivial travels to there (México, Argentina, Uruguay). I didn't get to spend nearly as much time in Argentina as I'd like, but I felt very at home there, in terms of the people's values and priorities. I most certainly intend to return.

There is also a certain category of interests that intellectually curious people have; I suppose you might call them passive interests--interests that one occasionally indulges through reading and perhaps conversation (with a selectively few people), but will almost certainly never "actualise" in any practical sense. For me, some of those are: civil aviation, epidemiology and highly infectious diseases, and energy (in the sense of fuel).

• walking
• aviation
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• economics
• engineering
• history
• languages
• software

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Georgia, Germany, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, Germany