Low-Level Systems Hacker • Kernel / Emulation Dev • Avid Retro Gamer
📍 Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 • ⌨️ Model M Buckling Springs • 👾 CRT Shaders & Demoscene
I'm a systems engineer obsessed with raw hardware performance, kernel primitives, and retro computer architecture. If it runs on silicon, I want to know how many CPU cycles it burns and why it isn't zero-copy.
Most of my waking hours are split between low-level C/C++/Rust pipelines and nostalgic gaming sessions:
- ⚡ Systems & Performance: Profiling cache misses, hand-optimizing SIMD instruction sets (
AVX-512,NEON), tinkering withio_uringand Linux kernel drivers. - 🕹️ Retro Gaming Archivist: Preserving classic PC-DOS, Amiga, and early 3D gaming history. Building custom CRT scanline shaders and contributing to cycle-accurate emulators (PCem, 86Box).
- ⌨️ Hardware Nerd: Typing exclusively on vintage IBM Model M buckling springs and building custom split mechanical keyboards.
- 🎧 Soundtrack: Heavy dark synthwave, industrial ambient, and classic video game MIDI soundfonts (Roland MT-32 / Sound Blaster AWE32).
| Era / Vibe | Favorites |
|---|---|
| Ukrainian / Post-Soviet Classics | S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033 |
| 90s PC / Boomer Shooters | DOOM (1993), DOOM II, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Blood, Deus Ex |
| Tactics & Strategy | Heroes of Might and Magic III (Horn of the Abyss), Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Warcraft II |
| Modern Immersion | Cyberpunk 2077, Factorio (the factory must grow), Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring |
- Low-Level & Runtimes: C, C++20, Rust, x86-64 / ARM64 Assembly, Zig
- Graphics & Emulation: Vulkan, OpenGL, SDL2, cycle-accurate hardware emulation, shader development
- Operating Systems: Arch Linux (custom minimal kernel), FreeBSD, DOS 6.22
- Tooling: Neovim,
perf,gdb,rr(record and replay debugger),ghidra