Insideout: Anton

We continue our rubrics - Insideout - where we reveal personalities and share life values of our developers, talk about the activities they perform daily and find out why they like working at Binary Studio.  This time we've interviewed Anton - co-founder of Binary Studio. I am sure Artem and you faced some difficulties during the company growth? What were the challenges you had to overcome? It was quite difficult not to be sarcastic with people I did not know in the team. Currently I try to learn how to avoid this habit, but sometimes I can’t help it. Now I would like to focus on the technical aspects in the company foundation and its further development. I'm sure, there was a stage when you had to become guru of programming. So, how did it happen? I do not think I am guru in any way. The experience in software development accumulates gradually - you just need to take a job you can accomplish, so you do not have to deal with it heroically. Can you tell us about the brightest memory during your work at Binary Studio? I am sure you’ve got lots of those during 9 years.. I remember every single day of my life. Of course, we don’t think that much about offices where we spend years of our life, as about people, who fulfill and bring life to the rooms. Do you mean that people you have worked with all these years left the main trace in your memory? Maybe there's some interesting story associated with your colleagues? Definitely. I would even say that it is not about some "funny" stories, but more about human character and relationships between people. Here is one more unsolved mystery about you. Every Wednesday you bring a bunch of candies for all of us (thank you for that). Where did that tradition come from? It is absolutely normal to treat your friends and family at the place where I grew up. It is just a symbolic tradition, which I keep on following - there is nothing special about it. I just want to make the day a little better for my colleagues. I’ve heard a lot about your genius decisions for the Hackathon and the high quality of the code you write. What do you get inspired by? How do you improve your professional skills? I got lucky to work alone at most of my projects, that’s why my colleagues simply can’t see my bugs. It seems that you try to minimize your merits, because after code review guys mentioned that the quality of your code was exceptional. Maybe you have some resources to share with others: services, books, other ones that help you to improve your skills? The main resource is a code which is already written by someone else. You take a look at it and try to understand, why something was done exactly in this way or what this particular construction means. How about we switch from “work” to “leisure” topics? Tells us what else you do besides programming. I’d say that I am a very boring person. My leisure as well as my work is turning around my PC. As one of my teachers characterized me, I am a computer addict. Let me guess: you are gamer =) Some time ago it was like that. Currently I do not play that often. What books and movies inspire you in life? I cannot say that I learned anything special from the mass culture. For me it is more of an entertainment – had some laugh and forgot it right away. Possibly, you find the inspiration in other things? It might be traveling, tasty food or meeting new people. What do you say? I don’t know a person who wouldn’t like to have a delicious meal or travel abroad. We are all people, so nothing human is alien to me. What five things or principles can you highlight in your life as the main ones? I do my best considering my opportunities in life and try to be guided by the rules of formal logic as strange as it may sound. So, the last and the most not serious question: all of us are very interested what you had for lunch yesterday? First meal, second meal and compote. Can you share a secret what that was?) I didn’t pay much of attention.