About Michael Kyraha

Professional Background

Michael Kyraha is an experienced software developer. His strongest skills are coding in Perl with Oracle or MySQL database back-end, in client-server/web architecture as well as in multithreaded IPC environment. He started his career in 1987 as a coder at the Research Institute of Information Technologies and Computer Science in Novosibirsk, Russian Federation. Later he specialized in web technologies while he worked as a web designer and application developer at Display LLC, a leading IT company in Yakutia.

Working about 2 years at a local bank, as a System Analyst he gained some skills in financial industry and led a team of experts in establishing the bank's microchip bankcard processing system and connecting it to a Russian nation-wide smart card network "Zolotaya Korona".

Since 2001, he has lived and worked in the USA as a full-time and then as a contracting consultant System Analyst and Web Developer.

Currently (2009-2010) he is working on a large scale Perl+XML project, a standardized data interface for exchanging financial information, at Thomson-Reuters Inc., a transnational information technology giant.

Interests

His interest lies in automation, artificial intelligence and cybernetics. He also likes to mine new knowledges, surf the web, fight spam, play foosball, discover the world and be in touch with wild nature.

Social Activities

A former leader of Yakutsk Linux User Group and an open source contributor of CGI::Ajax, a Perl Module.

Favorites

Motto: "I can do it.. just might have to learn how."
Movies: "Back to the future", "Forest Gump"
Books: "The Quark and The Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex" by Murray Gell-Mann, "Running from Safety" by Richard Bach
Hobbies: Messing around with electronics, Linux, Open Source, Web 2.0

Dreams

To pull a string of an eighteen-wheeler's blow horn.
To design a spacecraft navigation software.

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