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Hey there. I'm an industry veteran (30 years of experience) living in Berlin. I currently work mostly on web related projects (Rails, Elixir, Node, React), but I don't let this field to define me, I constantly looking around and work on other things. Did some hardware (lots of soldering involved) IoT project recently. Doing some weird KDB programming on another one. Dabble in ML and data science. Always happy to try new things.

For a short term (e.g. couple weeks) I can come on-site anywhere in the world, or work remotely from Berlin where I live with my family.

I know English, Hebrew, and Russian (native or close), but only tiny bits of Deutsch.

Oh, BTW, I co-authored "The Rails 4 Way" (https://leanpub.com/tr4w) with Obie Fernandez.

@vkushner vitaly@astrails.com http://github.com/vitaly

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SEEKING WORK - Berlin area or remote. Rails, Node, React, Devops

Ruby, Js/Ts, Python, Elixir, Go, Bash/Zsh, R C, Asm Rails, Node, React Devops, Docker, AWS MySQL, Postgres IoT

More than 20 years of software development experience.

Rails since 2005 (co-authored The Rails 4 Way: https://leanpub.com/tr4w)

Have IoT/hardware experience as well. Dabble in Crypto & Blockchain but not an expert ;)

Also did some ML/Data work (R, Python).

Worked with Q/KDB for more than a year.

Can do on-site anywhere for a short term (couple of weeks) or remote, or in-office in Berlin area.

https://github.com/vitaly/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

https://www.xing.com/profile/Vitaly_Kushner/

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

The Venus Project 5 years ago

Stop with this bullshit. USSR showed growth, it never showed actual great economy. The growth was only impressive so long as it was in a process of getting shit together. Educating population, building basic road infrastructure, etc. when you are in a shithole, you can show impressive growth for a while while getting to a basic level. They never figured out how to actually prosper.

SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Backend: Rails, Elixir, Node, Q/KDB. Frontend: React, Angular, Elm.

I live in Berlin. More then 20 years of software development.

Rails since 2005 (and BTW, I co-authored The Rails 4 Way: https://leanpub.com/tr4w) , but lately doing a lot of frontend with React or Angular.

Have IoT/hardware experience as well. Dabble in Crypto & Blockchain but not an expert ;)

Lately also started doing some ML/Data work (R, python).

Working with Q/KDB for more then a year.

Can do on-site anywhere for a short term (couple of weeks) or remote from Berlin.

https://github.com/vitaly/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

https://www.xing.com/profile/Vitaly_Kushner/

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

Face ID is by far my favorite feature of my iPhone X. I was expecting the camera to be the number one feature. Don’t get me wrong, camera is fantastic. As good as I expected and then some. But Face ID just blew me away. I was always having issues with Touch ID. Whenever I have sweaty hands, or sometimes just randomly it would fail. Since iPhone X I almost never have to actually enter the lock code. It just works. And in rare cases it fails it works on the second try when I retry it “properly”, fixing the usually obvious reason it failed, e.g. not facing it right etc.

I can't find the study right now, but from what I understand it is only really beneficial to animals the size of a mice, as soon as you move to bigger animals the effect is sharply reduced, and experiments with monkeys (or was it even primates? I don't remember) didn't find any real life prolonging effect. So you might be subjecting yourself to not enjoying food for no real benefit after all.

SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Rails, Nodejs, JS/Coffeescript, React, Backbone/Marionette, Erlang/Elixir, Elm

While my latest love is Elixir and Elm, I've been doing Rails since 2005.

More then 20 years of professional experience. I did it all, from Linux kernel drivers to web apps.

Since we started web freelancing in 2005, we (at Astrails) did more then 100 projects with many successful startups and bigger companies.

I have a lot of experience helping startups from early stages to production. Can help with defining the product and scope for the MVP, and general advice on how to increase your chances of success.

https://github.com/vitaly/

https://github.com/astrails/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Rails, Nodejs, JS/Coffeescript, React, Backbone/Marionette, Erlang/Elixir, Elm

While my latest love is Elixir, I've been doing Rails since 2005.

More then 20 years of professional experience. I did it all, from Linux kernel drivers to web apps.

Since we started web freelancing in 2005, we (at Astrails) did more then 100 projects with many successful startups and bigger companies.

I have a lot of experience helping startups from early stages to production. Can help with defining the product and scope for the MVP, and general advice on how to increase your chances of success.

https://github.com/vitaly/

https://github.com/astrails/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Rails, Nodejs, JS/Coffeescript, React, Backbone/Marionette, Erlang/Elixir, Elm

Rails since 2005

more then 20 years of experience from Linux kernel drivers to web apps.

We did more then 100 projects since 2005, with many successful startups and bigger companies. I have a lot of experience helping startups from early stages to production. Can help with defining the product, scope for the MVP, and general advice on how to increase your chances of success.

https://github.com/vitaly/

https://github.com/astrails/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Rails, Nodejs, JS/Coffeescript, React, Backbone/Marionette, Erlang/Elixir

Rails since 2005

more then 20 years of experience from Linux kernel drivers to web apps.

We did more then 100 projects since 2005, with many successful startups and bigger companies. I have a lot of experience helping startups from early stages to production. Can help with defining the product, scope for the MVP, and general advice on how to increase your chances of success.

https://github.com/vitaly/

https://github.com/astrails/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Rails, Nodejs, JS/Coffeescript, React, Backbone/Marionette, Erlang/Elixir

Rails since 2005

more then 20 years of experience from Linux kernel drivers to web apps.

We did more then 100 projects since 2005, with many successful startups and bigger companies. I have a lot of experience helping startups from early stages to production. Can help with defining the product, scope for the MVP, and general advice on how to increase your chances of success.

https://github.com/vitaly/

https://github.com/astrails/

http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: ‭+49 152 09235503‬

Email: vitaly@astrails.com

We actually recommend exactly this to many of our customers. Unless the marketing homepage needs a lot of dynamic app-database driven content we usually recommend installing wordpress on www.domain.com and rails app on domain.com.

when user is not logged-in, domain.com redirects to www.domain.com.

this setup saves a lot of time on static pages management and adds quite a bit of marketing power.