I’ve always had an engineer’s mindset, entrepreneurial ideas, and a wide range of talents that pushed me to explore and create. At the age of 16,I participated city contest of your programmers where I took 3rd place in game development section. The same year I began studying Computer Science at university, things started to accelerate by my third year. I was offered a position as a junior research fellow at the university, which became a turning point for me.
In just one year, I managed to publish five scientific articles in different journals, participate in several international conferences, and write a scientific paper that took 3rd place in the second round of a national competition. I was also awarded for my valuable contribution to the development of science at the university. At the same time, I worked on a robotics platform that was the topic of my articles. The platform was fully designed and developed by me, from scratch, based on my own ideas. It was a crazy year, full of achievements and intense work, but it felt incredibly rewarding.
Despite all of this, the thought of working in software development kept sparking my ambitions. The idea of creating something meaningful with code pulled me away from research and into a whole new field. At 21, I started developing eCommerce stores using PHP. It didn’t take long to realize that the market demand was way beyond what I could handle alone. That’s when I hired my first remote developers to help.
By the time I turned 22, I opened my first office. I had six in-house developers working with me, plus several remote developers and designers. Now, looking back, it feels like a team for a single project, but back then, it was massive. I had no one to guide me or show me how things worked—I was figuring out everything on my own, step by step.
It was a lot of work, but it was the kind of work I enjoyed—full of challenges and new experiences. That time is something I always remember fondly. The first steps are always tough, but they’re also some of the sweetest. It was the beginning of everything I’ve built since.