Gamer, programmer, rewriter, and music/video creator. Back in the 2000s and 2010s, I was heavily involved in paper crafting and handmade projects because I genuinely enjoyed creating things with my own hands.
I am mostly self-taught. I learned video editing back when I was still in school and spent many years working in Corel VideoStudio before moving to DaVinci Resolve in 2023. Looking back, it was one of the best decisions I made for my creative work. Resolve offered a far more capable and better-optimized environment, allowing me to produce videos of a much higher quality. Everything I know about video editing has been learned through years of practice, experimentation, and solving problems on my own.
Creating video content (music videos and similar projects) is something I do entirely on my own. Sometimes I work with existing footage and clips, but in many cases I also have to create scenes according to my own ideas and scripts. It is a difficult, time-consuming, and labor-intensive process that often brings more expenses than rewards.
Today, I approach digital art in much the same way. I continue to study anatomy, composition, lighting, and painting techniques independently, gradually improving my skills one piece at a time. Until recently, I focused almost exclusively on game screenshots, but now I also want to create original digital artworks of my own.
From May 10th, 2013 until 2021, I was an active contributor to the Wikia/Fandom wiki-hosting platform. During that time, I founded the Russian-language Dawn of War Wiki in 2013 and later the Ukrainian Command & Conquer Wiki in 2017, as no Ukrainian-language project for the series existed at the time. I spent years writing and translating articles, designing templates and infoboxes, refining the overall appearance of the wikis, and helping maintain their communities.
My Command & Conquer Wiki eventually became inactive — not because it had been abandoned, but because I simply had less free time and motivation than before. Without any prior warning, Fandom permanently closed the project as part of its inactive wiki removals, erasing years of work, manually translated content, and carefully crafted design. Combined with the platform's declining quality, technical issues, and increasingly unfriendly direction, this marked the end of my involvement with Fandom.
In 2022, I spent some time creating original ambient and electronic music in BeepBox. I later released several tracks through TuneCore, but eventually cut ties with the distributor after disappointing experiences with their support and the overall quality of their service.
I studied both power machine engineering and programming, earning a Ukrainian state diploma in the former and an internationally recognized diploma in the latter. Alongside my programming studies, I also completed Cisco networking courses, gaining practical knowledge of networking technologies and infrastructure.