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<h3>Who I am?</h3>
<p>Hi again! My name is Vadim and I`m from Russia but currently living and working in France, Nantes. In 2014 I finished high-school in my native country, and I prepared to study in university of St.Petersburg to become an architect. But I had a chance to continue my study in France and prepare my BAC in science degree (examen for French students to pursue university studies).</p>  
<p>I spend 2 years yet in a high-school learning French. We studied a lot of electronics and maths, in the same time I dived in a world of computer science with simple HTML and CSS. It`s became my passion, I subscribed on a resources like <a href="https://htmlacademy.ru/" target="_blank">HTML Academy</a> to have access for a more advanced css cources, and I accomplished some of <a href="https://www.codecademy.com/" target="_blank">Code Academy</a> lessons.
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<p>After 2 years in France, I had to decide where I will go next. In this moment I spent a lot of time on programming, so I decided to left the idea of becoming architect (the higher education for architects was very expensive for me) and push my efforts in what I`m currently loving to do. I succefully graduated and proceeded in a University of Nantes. Now I`m an on my way to become full-stack web developer after passing there 3 years where I created a lot of projects.</p>
<p>The programming isn`t the single thing that I love to do. I spend the most of my school age learning music - piano, guitar (and also drums now), you can see my old covers if you love something like <a href="https://youtu.be/Pov5hVABT2g" target = "_blank">Nirvana</a> on Youtube.</p>
<p>When I was 16 years old, I was mad with photography, I started to buy professional lenses and tried to bring more of art in my life. Now it always stays my hobby, and I do some photos from time to time. You can check out my works <a href="https://veax-photos.netlify.com" target = "_blank">here</a>.</p> Also I love to do travel videos, you can check it on my youtube channel. I'm a big fan of blackmagic cameras rig's.
<p>Feel free to <a href="/contacts.html">contact me</a>. I`m always open to new connections.</p>
<p>I suppose that the last thing to tell about me that I love to travel, you could soon find some of my trips in my <a href="/blog.html">blog</a> if you are interested in.</p>

<h3>Stack</h3>
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  <dt>Languages</dt>
  <li>Java</li>
  <li>HTML5 (Haml, Pug)</li>
  <li>CSS3 (Sass, TailwindCSS)</li>
  <li>Javascript (jQuery currently used on legacy project)</li>

  <dt>Frameworks</dt>
  <li>Spring Boot</li>
  <li>Struts (currently using on legacy project)</li>
  <li>Hibernate </li>

  <dt>Other</dt>
  <li>Git</li>
  <li>Oracle SQL </li>
  <li>Jekyll (static site generator used for this blog)</li>
  <li>React & Redux</li>
  <li>Jenkins</li>
  <li>Kibana</li>
  <li>Cucumber</li>
  <li>Hazelcast</li>
  <li>Linux and cml (bash scripts)</li>

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<h3>What I currently do?</h3>
<p>I decided to not pursue a Master`s degree in computer science and to stop my studies with Bachelor`s degree. My type of degree considered 16 weeks internship in a company and constant work after. So after my internship in Capgemini, I'm currently working here as Java Software Developer (2+ years). I worked for big clients like SNCF (developing API used on train stations) and ASP (Common Agricultural Policy helping to finance agriculture industry in France)</p>
<p>In my free time I'm learning new technologies like React Native for mobile dev and working on side projects, I hope to launch my own business one day.</p>
<p>You can see my latest projects <a href="{{site.baseurl}}work/">here</a>. And my videos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/VEAXMAN/">here</a> </p>

<h3>What else?</h3>
<p>Initially this web-page would be to become nothing but my portfolio with the most of projects that I did, but after all it`s something more: it`s my projects, my notes about all what I feel important, my life in digit dimension. So feel free to all types of feedback.</p>
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<span class="img_description">Just a cow, why not?</span>