Biography

My story began on 11 February 1989. On this day, at noon, I was born. My father, Andrei Shatokhin, an engineer by education, was working at the mine, serviced security systems. Then he retired and became a master at repairing cash registers, and works to this day. My mother, Ludmila Shatokhina, just after my birth left her job and became a housewife. And I have a younger brother, Eugene Shatokhin, who is now studying at the Donetsk National Technical University in the department of electric drives and automation of industrial plants.

Childhood

Since my childhood I was very curious child. As early as three years could read and write. I have always tried to understand the world around me to reveal all its secrets. I broke my toys just for the sake of finding out how they work. I was interested in everything: physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, but most of all I was attracted by different mechanisms. It was then born in me a passion that continues unabated to this day. And her name - robotics.

School

September 1, 1996 I went to school № 128, in which I studied for four years. On the first day of getting a five, I first felt the sweet taste of victory, which would feel again and again. Then I started to try to be better than others in everything in school and in physical education. At the end of each quarter my table was decorated with nothing but five, at the end of each academic year, I was awarded Honourable mention.

In 2000, we moved and I had to change schools. Now I had to learn in school № 124, which was later renamed the general developmental complex "East". Here, in the sixth grade, I first took part in the competition on the geography and won it. Beginning next year, I began to record absolutely all competitions, even the ones that were so uninteresting to me for subjects such as Russian and Ukrainian languages ​​and literature. And almost all I have won prizes.

In the seventh class I enrolled in the school section of basketball, but I quickly got bored with it (although now I sometimes playing). Around the same time I got my first computer. And, as probably all the children of my age, I began to sit in front of him for hours, playing computer games.

One day, buying school supplies for the new school year, I came across the book "Computer games. How is it done" which played a key role in choosing my future career. Then I realized that I wanted to make games. Persuaded my father to buy me a tutorial book of C++, I started to learn programming.

In ninth grade, we began to learn computer science, and I was reported about a course of programming, which I immediately signed up. On it, I met people who became later my best friends. In the summer I employes as a tester in a company "Bulat", which developed games. I was in seventh heaven. Unfortunately, in September, I had to get out of there, but I promised myself that I will be back, only this time as a programmer. And leaping ahead, I will say that I kept it.

Meanwhile, school time quickly raced to its decline, and started time to go to university. At first I wanted to go to the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (its name was associated with my favorite robotics), but then changed my mind and began to enter to the Donetsk National Technical University, because my father was graduated from it.

By participating in the ratings at admission, the first time I got a passing score on the Ukrainian language and computer science. Mathematics is needed to score a certain score, which resounded after 3 phase ratings. As it turned out, required a passing grade, I got another on the second try, guaranteeing my arrival before the end of the school.

I graduated from school with a gold medal, adding it to my collection of letters (which by then had accumulated several dozen).

University

The first year of university seemed unusually light. We only had a few items. Trifle compared to the huge school lists. In addition, most subjects were very interesting that only contributed to their ease of study. In the second year I learned of the student government and became a member. In the same year I had the opportunity to participate in the organization of university scientific conference that changed my life goals. If I had wanted to quickly get a diploma and go to work, but now I want to make a career in science. I firmly decided to go to graduate school. At this point I was trying not to miss a single conference, making for each report on artificial intelligence. Number of items at this time has increased significantly and it became harder to learn. Also, I could not understand why we did learn some things that are unlikely to ever be useful in life.

In the third year I was fortunate to get to work in the studio "Koins". This was my first job in my future field. Here I was faced with real-world projects and met with modern technology. During the year that I worked there, I learned more than by three years of university. At this point I realized that the University provides very little useful practical skills, instead it teaches us to turn out by these skills. He teaches us to learn.

Now, being the end point of the my students way I understand it very clearly. And looking back, I understand that every lab, every essay, every set-off, forced us to independently extract the bits missing information, teaching us to be independent, imparting the most important skill in life - the ability to educate themselves.

Plans for the Future

In the near future I'm going to completion and defense of master's work.

If we talk about the medium term, I need to build a career with the development of computer games in which I am working on. Also going to continue my education in graduate school. In addition, I would like to visit other countries, see the world, to explore other cultures.

In the distant future I plan to start my own company to manufacture robots and bionic implants.