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Developer at Stack Overflow focusing on public Q&A. Russian Canadian working in the American idiom.

Once upon a time:

  • community manager at Stack Overflow
  • elected moderator on Stack Overflow and Software Engineering
  • desktop software developer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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