Having been raised in the vast expanses of the Soviet Union, having lived in Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine, having received a couple of Master's degrees with honors and a lieutenant rank, having architected and implemented software that processed petabytes of binary data by now, having solved thousands of differential equations systems and having played numerous hours of Counter-Strike, Vitaliy went to sunny Santa Monica to help Sony lay the foundation for its PlayStation-3. Afterwards, Valve, amidst miraculous mountains and forests of the State of Washington, became Vitaliy's new home where nowadays he is architechting more code to handle more terabytes of next-gen stuff every day. |