Danilo Grudzynski

Greeting!

About learning

My name is Danylo Hrudzynsky and I graduated from the ATEP department with a master’s degree ten years ago. It was insanely interesting to study, however, at some point the need for money overcame the love of knowledge and the last couple of years I studied in a free mode of university attendance. At the time (unlike today), such a maneuver was unusual and highly discouraged, resulting in the question of my dismissal in the fifth year. However, the issue was resolved in my favor for a timely and, more importantly (!) well-performed laboratory tasks.

About career

I’m 30, and I’ve been working in IT for over ten years. Given the rapid growth of the market and the constant excess of demand over supply, there were many opportunities in this area. By the time I was 25, I had tried my hand as a programmer, project manager, and technical leader, and about five years ago I took on the client-facing position of technical solution architect (in fairness, not very serious).

I am currently working as a Team Lead / Principal Developer (when senior is not enough). This is a funny artifact of the terrible inflation of grades, caused by the service-orientation of the modern Ukrainian IT) in the company ISG (I do not recommend). Prior to that, I worked for five years as a software architect at DataArt (recommended).

About the essence of the question

Programming is very interesting. Programming is the ability to solve problems in general. Ability to distinguish abstractions from specific business processes and automate processes (solve problems) in relation to these abstractions. The basis provided by education at the Department of ATEP is invaluable in that it teaches to distinguish these abstractions in various fields – whether theoretical mechanics or reproduction of dynamic processes by Laplace transformations. Without this base and without these skills, the best thing you can count on as a programmer is the position of senior monkey coder. No prospects of working on interesting projects, no prospects of responsibility for something. Your carcass will be sold by skilled sellers with a good margin, but this will not bring you closer to the possibility of “creating”. In this way, you will forever be dependent on people who will be able to “create” and who will be able to “control” you. Under any reduction (hello, coronavirus!) You will get, not them. In any conversation that mentions “greedy stupid Ukrainian IT specialists”, you will be the main characters, not them.

Together

Good luck and success! I will not say “Training is all you have to think about”, but I will say that, having access to training at the Department of ATEP, it is unwise not to use it, both in light of a potential career and in light of an interesting, complete and a busy life. The knowledge and experience that you can get here (knowledge and experience, not a diploma and closed sessions!), Was very useful to me and I’m sure you will not regret the effort.