Peter G. Brakhnov
Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science

Field of study    System Programming

e-mail: adom@inbox.ru

Master's thesis    «Parallel modelling of control system of network dynamic object with lumped parameters»

Research supervisor     prof. V. Svyatniy

Autobiography

Shortly about myself My average mark during study term is 4,2. My native language is Russian. I can speak Ukrainian fluently. I know English well enough to communicate, read books and watch movies. I know German and Italian well enough for everyday communication and correspondence. I have basic knowledge of French and Japan. I know such programming languages: Pascal, Delhpi, VBA, C/C++, Javascript, Assembler, Java. I have basic work experience of VHDL, Prolog.

Childhood
I was born on February, 20th, 1986 in Makeyevka. My mother is mechanical engineer by first higher education and touristic business manager by second one. My father is mechanical engineer. My sister is candidate of science and associate professor of PFC department in DonNTU.
I didn't go to kindergarten because of great reluctance. My mother had to quit her job temporarily.
When I was three, I already started reading and at the same time writing, but only in mirror image, so I had to retrain later.
I liked building constructors a lot and had plenty of them. I also tried to break every toy I've got to see what's inside - I was pretty curious. Even before school I've learned to print on typewriter quite quickly, retyped tales and even redrawed pictures from them through transfer paper for fun.
When I was three, our family moved to Donetsk, where we've bought a private house. Thus, I spent the second half of preschool period and later life on nature, among trees and flowers.

School
In 1993 I started learning in the middle school N61. Three months later I was early transferred to second year because of my knowledge level. Starting fifth year, I was going to specialized school N17 with deep Physics and Mathematics teaching. I finished it in 2002. My favourite school subjects were English, which I've known from early childhood, and Informatics. Love for languages was something my mother tried to cultivate in me. I learned English since I was four, and from ten till twelve I've also learned Italian. I started to learn German already in university. My favourite books were encyclopaedias of the most various orientation, which I was bought plenty. Besides those, I liked phylosophical and mystical books.
I dreamed of computer since childhood. My parents bought me first computer when I was nine. Since then I have been spending real huge amount of time with it, so my future profession was actually predetermined.
Although both Mathematics and Informatics were teached in school, their level was quite insufficient to enter a university. So, in 2001 I started visiting preliminary courses for DonNTU entrants in Mathematics and Informatics to obtain deeper knowledge, enough to enter DonNTU. In February, 2002 I passed rating tests and was accepted as student of Computer Science and Informatics department, specialty CS (Computer Systems and Networks).

University
I studied in CS group all the first year along, but on second year entered the German group and changed the specialty to SP (System Programming). During my university years I was 'sugaring', partially because of laziness, partially because of passion for computer games and Internet chatting, so after finishing the fourth year in 2006 I obtained a bachelor's diploma with middle grade 4.2. I failed to enter magistracy on budget form and completed the fifth year in 2007 as engineer.
Starting April, 2007 I've been working in Kiev in 'Luxoft' firm, where I've gotten to thanks to Computer Science department head Vladimir A. Svyatniy. I like both my job and Kiev, which is an old cultural center with amazing architecture, lots of sights and beautiful nature.
After defending the engineer's thesis in 2007, I decided to complete the magistracy nevertheless (beacuse of active application of Bolonian process), so I've entered it immediately. Since September, 2007 I've been learning on individual schedule while continuing to work in Kiev.

Future plans
They are to complete the magistracy and stay working in Kiev, where I plan to move on permanent place of residence. Maybe I happen to go abroadm because firm where I'm working cooperates with German company 'Harman-Becker' and does its orders. I want to become a specialist in my field.