CV - Vlad Faust Blog

Curriculum vitae

Throughout my 10+ years of experience in Information Technology, I've tried everything from compiling COFF after LLIR lowering to designing a resilient ultra-scalable fleet of FAAS workers, from Substrate and IPFS to event-driven stock price prediction.

Comprehending a technology is like surfing on the waves of technology trends, on the surface of the greatest whirlpool of singularity. Comprehension means fundamental, decomposed knowledge enough to build a solution at any scale.

For me, it is not about thoroughly learning API of yet another web framework, it is instead getting hands on the set of tooling a technology offers, so that I may choose the best framework suitable for the problem. If I were to compile my 10+ years of experience into one line, that would be the following:

Right tooling is paramount.

Here is an incomplete list of technologies I've had experience with, in the order of encounter, starting back at 2013: Pascal, vJass, cJass, C, C++, Java, git, LibGDX, PHP, Unity, C#, Ruby, Telegram bots, Heroku, Dokku, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, JavaScript, Gulp, Grunt, Ruby On Rails, Hanami, Roda, Sequel, Crystal, LLVM, Kubernetes, Firecracker, Tiny Core Linux, buildpacks.io, compiler development, machine learning, Tensorflow, VueJS, TypeScript, Deno, Zig, PEG, Rust, EVM, Solidity, Substrate, IPFS, ZKP, ChatGPT...

My previous experience includes:

2013: Self-employed.
2021: Senior Crystal (backend) developer at NeuraLegion.
2022: Technical Due Diligence Trainee at Byzantine.Solutions.

At the moment, my best stack is AI, Typescript, VueJS, NodeJS, tRPC and Zod. I extensively use GitHub Copilot for code generation.

See my blog posts and projects below, check my GitHub profile, find my contacts in the header, and feel free to reach out.

Sincerely,
Vlad.

Recent blog posts

Tue Nov 07 2023ffmpeg.ai
Tue Apr 12 2022The game of life
Thu Aug 20 2020The Onyx Programming Language
Sun Aug 16 2020System Programming in 2k20
Fri Aug 07 2020Hello, World!

Project list

Singularity tech (2022-present)

Behold, the Deus ex Machina blooms, like a lotus from the murky depths.

AIStories
The original source-available AI character simulation platform.
Open sourceCommercialAICryptoNFTsTypeScriptVueJSNodeJStrpczodSolidityethers
Offchain Café EVM
A self-hosted indexing service for Ethereum blockchain, exposing a GraphQL API.
Open sourceCryptoEVMSolidityTypeScriptGraphQL
IPNFT
An on-chain, digital proof of authorship for an IPFS CID, tailored to existing NFT standards.
Open sourceCryptoIPFSEVMSolidity
Fancy Contracts
A collection of EVM smart contracts for the Fancy Software apps ecosystem.
Open sourceCryptoEVMSolidity

Onyx, the language (2020-2022)

Onyx is a novel programming language I'was working on.

NXSF.org
The Onyx Software Foundation website (source).
Open source
Onyx standard
An attempt to standardize the Onyx language (source).
Open source
Phoenix
An attempt to implement an Onyx language compiler in C++.
Open sourceC++
Onyx in Rust
An attempt to implement an Onyx language compiler in Rust.
Open sourceRust
Onyx in Typescript
An attempt to implement an Onyx language compiler in TypeScript + Zig.
Open sourceZigTypeScript

Crystal-related projects (2018-2020)

Crystal is a Ruby-inspired programming language, but compiled.

Onyx framework (2020)
A web framework with HTTP, SQL ORM and EDA modules, fancy website and rich documentation.
Open sourceProduct designCrystalSQLHTTPEvent-driven architectureVueJSSASS
Crystal Jobs (2018)
A now defunct Crystal jobs board (frontend preview).
Open sourceProduct designCrystalVueJSSASS
CrystalWorld (2019)
A RealWorld implementation in Crystal and Onyx the web framework.
Open sourceCrystalSQLite

Crystal shards (2018-2020)

A shard is a Crystal code package.

TimeFormat
Time spans formatting made simple.
Open sourceCrystal
I18n
Internationalization shard.
Open sourceCrystal
HTTP::Multiserver
Mount multiple web applications.
Open sourceCrystalHTTP
Tarantool
A Tarantool database driver.
Open sourceCrystalTCP
Cake-Bake
Bake Cakefile into native Crystal code.
Open sourceCrystal
Callbacks
Expressive callbacks module.
Open sourceCrystal
Validations
Validations module.
Open sourceCrystal
MiniRedis
A light-weight low-level Redis client.
Open sourceCrystalTCP
HTTP::Params::Serializable
The HTTP params parsing module.
Open sourceCrystal
Migrate
A database migration solution.
Open sourceCrystalSQL
Stripe
Stripe API wrapper.
Open sourceCrystalAPI wrapper
Tele
A convenient Telegram Bot framework.
Open sourceCrystalTelegram bot
Tele::Broadcast
Broadcasting for Tele.
Open sourceCrystalTelegram botRedis

Ruby gems (2015-2017)

Jbuilder::JsonApi
Jbuilder meets jsonapi.org specifications.
Open sourceRuby
AssetPipeline
Add Sprockets based Asset Pipeline to your Ruby applications.
Open sourceRuby on Rails
Bitcoinpay
Bitcoinpay.com API client for Ruby.
Open sourceRubyAPI wrapperCrypto
Blockchain::Api
A blockchain.info API wrapper.
Open sourceRubyAPI wrapperCrypto

Other projects

Jumpin Sweeties (2015)
A casual mobile game.
GameDevJavaLibGDX
Parrot Farm (2016)
A showcase project to demonstrate my skills at those times, hosted on Heroku.
Open sourceRuby on RailsAngularJS
Coinpricebet (2018)
A Stellar-based betting on crypto coin prices, also this version.
Product designCryptoVueJS
AssetFD (2018)
An unfinished decentralized exchange interface based on Stellar.
CryptoVueJS
Soundmemes Bot (2016-2018)
A now defunct Telegram bot to post sound memes in chats.
Open sourceProduct designTelegram botRubyCrystalPostgreSQLRedis
Cashback Bot (2017)
A now defunct Telegram bot to earn cashback from purchases.
Product designTelegram botRubyGraphQLAPI wrapperPostgreSQLRedis
Expense Manager 2 (2015)
A collaborative attempt to improve an existing app.
Product designJavaAndroid
Cycler (2014)
An attempt to create a sleep cycle Android application.
Product designJavaAndroid
Anogram (2014)
A naive attempt to create an anonymous social network.
Product designiOSPHP
UFS Arena (2012)
A Warcraft III™ custom map (source).
Product designGameDevcJASS