Good music. One of my favorite​ is Two Steps From Hell. It's modern classic and it sounds great. When I listen to them and at that time go somewhere I have strong feeling that I'm going to save the world. Or at least to make something great. These songs are epic and interesting to listen to because of how much different instruments are being used. My favorite song is Cannon In D Minor from Battlecry album. Recommend it!

About books and devices for them. I like to read. I read as much as I can even if it's many tasks at work. If I not read I feel hungry and sad. But It's impossible to have all this books in paper, expecially with my common relocation from one apartments to another. That's why I read mostly e-books. The mos complicated thing was to choose the correct device. I started from PC screen, but that was really uncomfortable - even with laptop. So I bought an iPad. It was nice but after long reading sessions my eyes felt sandy and was red. And then I bought e-ink book and that was love at first sight. My first book was very cheep chinese book from unknown manufacturer and it had an issue with every even-number page: text was shown only on the first part of it. But e-ink itself was so much like paper that I didn't pay attention to this little issue. And a few years later I at last bought Kindle which is one of the best e-books device in my opinion. The fonts are beautiful and built-in vocabulary is very handy. When I was a child I can't even imagine that I could have all books I wanted in my pocket. And now it's possible and it is really cool!

About my colleague Maria Here is my recommendation for Maria. We worked together not for so long but it was a pleasure to work with her. I worked in one team with Maria and was impressed with her ability to get comfortable with new and really big project quickly enough. She learned fast and had sincere interest to her work and programming in general. I’m sure her developer skills and also initiative and positive attitude will be a great addition to any team. Also she is interesting and nice person.

Description for my projects Calculator Small description: Calculator with Reverse Polish notation written in C Full description: This is a calculator written entirely in C. It takes a string as input (you can use brackets, sin, cos, etc.), parses it and calculates result using Reverse Polish notation. Swift Data Structures Small description: Exploring data structures in Swift Full description: This is my repository for exploring data structures (mostly in Swift). In my self study I use code and explanation from Swift Algorithms Club. For more information about club see links below. User Interface Demo Project Small description: Exploring UIStackView Full description: A small demo with scrollView and stackView for nice rotating animation and layout of title, image and description text. Also there is a good solution for saving scrollView’s contentOffset on needed element while rotating device. SpriteKit Game Small description: Demo platformer game written in Swift with SpriteKit Full description: Platformer game demo on SpriteKit and Swift for iOS and macOS. Jump and collect the coins. It’s the demo version so you can’t lose in it. The main features are: endless scrolling with 3-layers background parallax implemented in ScrollingBackground class. Each layer is a separate node with its own velocity. New layers could be simply added. platforms randomizer. Platforms are created endlessly. This feature is implemented in Platforms generator class and could be simply modified if needed.

Recommendations for colleagues For Dmitrii I worked with Dmitrii more than a year. He was our team leader and he made that work very well. Communication in team was on the best level. The same was organization. Dmitrii writes clean, well-written code which is simple for supporting and expanding. Also Dmitrii constantly improves his programming skills: he looks for different conferences, courses and articles and that's really important in software development. Even if a task was really hard he always found the way to made it at its best. For Artem I had a pleasure working with Artem in MERA and E-Legion for more than a year on different projects. He is not only a developer with high range of skills (from low-level C programming to complicated architecture solutions for iOS development), but also reliable person with high motivation. During our collaboration I was impressed with his ability to find solutions for most challenging tasks, that’s why he earns my highest recommendations. For Anastasia We worked together in different projects for about a year and during that time I have gotten to know Anastasia quite well. She always took the initiative to make sure her work was done very well. Also her positive attitude fitted nicely to our team. I thoroughly recommend her as responsible and motivated colleague.

About reading I like to read. When I was a child I could read all the day long. I read fantasy books like The Lord of The Rings and Harry Potter. When I had started to learn at university I started to learn books about self-improvement. For now it's one of my most favorite kind of literature but it takes time to choose correct books (like "Organized Mind" by Levitin or "Deep Work" by Cal Newport). I don't like to read books translated to Russian because it often loose author's style and sometimes even completely change the ideas. Also there are so many books that just are not translated to Russian. Now I read book "Fluent Forever" about studying languages. It is very interesting book and I have already use Anki cards to memorize grammar rules and different words.