I am Slava

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Blog posts

Learning	03/19/2025
Engineer Experience	02/22/2025
READABLE documentation	02/10/2025
Interviewing engineers	03/17/2022
Caveats of buying a house	05/25/2021
Excellent Code	03/16/2021
Fairness and Law Enforcement	09/02/2020
Industry and workers	06/25/2020
Innovation and Dependence	06/12/2020
Upgrading a Monoprice Select v2.1	07/12/2019
Twin Peaks	11/17/2017
Freezing a Raspberry Pi	03/13/2013

Talks and workshops

Year	Topic
2025	Can you hear me now? A survey of communications platforms during emergencies
2025	Engineering Culture: creating, maintaining, identifying a high quality technical environment
2019	Git, secrets, and you!
2017	Storing secrets in the wild
2017	GoCD POC: why jenkins won
2017	CISSP: Access Management

Notable projects

• A replacement controller for my Litter Robot 3 written in C
• I define frequent commands as make target includes
• A recent GnuPG version packaged for CentOS and Debian
• Not that great of a script for migrating off PostgreSQL BDR
• A devops clock, and another
• Websites
  • A chess club I frequent
  • The Rainier fan club
  • My cat

Resources

• Recipes
• Some haikus and rhymes
• Beer and kombucha labels
• My ongoing book list
• My garage listing
• Some cat pictures
• In emergency, break open

City guides

Yerevan
Moscow
San Diego
Chicago

Friends

Sorted by most updated:

• Ryan Ngo documents the IT industry and his growth
• Ian Foster challenges defaults in his regular blog
• Jonathan M. Tran writes about linux and photography
• Ian Eusebio is documenting his knowledge in regular blog posts
• John Paul Hayes II has a pretty cool personal site and home API
• Bryce Case the musician
• James Khang blogs and used to build a game
• Vetsin does infosec stuff
• Naftuli Kay writes about engineering
• Javelang is the future of programming