— Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?
— Because it's there

George Mallory

My projects

Here are some of my pet projects that I work on in my spare time:

My talks

Here are some of my talks (slides and videos) that I gave at different times:

Bio

My name is Alexander Myshov. I am senior software developer from Stockholm

You know it's quite cold here in winter, so instead of wondering in the snow in the nearest forest I do programming. I love doing it. Sometimes it is hard though, but with every solved problem I become more and more confident that I am in the right place.

I've been working in this area since my graduation from university in 2008 in Bratsk city. There was a lot of different stuff that I did in the past years. I programmed in Delphi, C++, C#, PL/SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Haskell and Swift.

Also since 2008 I started to do yoga, and now it is the big part of my life. I passed exams for yoga teaching in 2010, but since 2013 I've decided to fully immerse myself into software engineering.

Since 2015 I've moved from Bratsk to Novosibirsk to join to the great company 2gis, where I worked as JavaScript developer. I worked on the highloaded isomorphic JavaScript application - 2gis.ru. I also participated in the development of various features of the WebMaps team (2gis maps (leaflet wrapper), WebGL etc.).

After more than one year I had a chance to join the biggest e-shop project in Russia Yandex Market. I worked there among the most intelligent programmers in my country for three and half years.

Then I had an opportunity to join forces with my friend to create a startup JoysApp. I was working there as a Lead Frontend Developer, and it was really fun and interesting project. But unfortunately as you might know approximately 90% of startups fail and we were not an exeception. I still grateful for the chance and experience to work on this project though.

After that I have founded defront.ru. It is a small resource for developers. I also opened Patreon page that is currently inactive and lived for almost a year on donations from the community, giving my knowledge on almost daily basis as a payment to them. It was a super fun time and I was really humbled by the response that my project got. In 2021 my blog accumulated almost 2 million views.

Currently I am living and working in Stockholm on a media asset management platform Iconik, doing different stuff from architecting a no-code solution for our automation engine to tweaking animations in iOS Swift application.

Contacts

You can find me at GitHub as myshov, on twiter as @myshov, on Bluesky as @myshov.bsky.social