Childhood and teenage

I, Mihnevich Pavel, was born on the 13th of July 1996 at the maternity hospital №3 in Donetsk, which is located on the boundary of Russia and Ukraine.

At the age of six, I was sent to a secondary school where I live.

At the age of fourteen, I went to the College Lyceum, where I received a complete secondary education.

In the second year of study at the lyceum, the group was given a physical and mathematical profile. Spanish was chosen as a secondary foreign language.

The educational program weakly inspired me, but I was extremely inquisitive and constantly asked the teachers various questions of interest to me. Often completely off topic.

I took an active part in various competitions, both state and third-party. In rating competitions, I often won prizes. For some of them, I was exempted from classes in physics and computer science.

Then I started to get involved in programming. The first experiences in this environment were VBA, Pascal, HTML-CSS layout, and AutoIt.

Higher education

At the age of seventeen, I entered the Donetsk National Technical University in the field of software intelligent systems, on a budgetary basis. After the events of 2014 in the Donbass, I thought about continuing my studies in another region. By coincidence, the main region of the search for a new university has become the Crimea. Due to problems with documents, the search was not the easiest, but in the end, it was still effective – I became a student of the Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry with a degree in automation of technological processes and production belonging to the Institute of Atomic Energy. This specialty seemed to me the closest to the previously selected. The next six months in the dormitories were held under the dictation of radical hedonism. And nightly trips around the peninsula, accompanied by first-class music, are nostalgically remembered to this day.

Still, in the end, it was decided to return to the already familiar walls of DonNTU. Having finished the missed material, I switched to the third year of study. At that time, I began thinking in more detail about self-realization and the choice of directions for further development. Having experimented in different areas, the choice did become uneasier. All industries were attractive and interesting in their own way, but also extremely deep for professional training. As a result, the side jobs made a choice for me, and I settled on front-end development. And, yet I wanted something more, and I began to glance to the other side of the process – the backend, which I later switched to. At this stop, I met the end of the bachelor degree and the beginning of the magistracy.

When it came time to prepare for the final qualifying work, I was strongly recommended to choose the Python programming language to implement it. For several months, I became acquainted with the language, and every day I was more and more amazed by its capabilities, convenience and community. And this could not but rejoice – the language perfectly manifests itself in a variety of tasks and areas, which is especially important when even completely different sections dealing with different problems and setting different tasks for themselves cause the same interest.

Goals, plans and vision for the future

In professional development, the near future is completely captured by the improvement in Python. And of course, above all, cultivation in practice. Own ideas for implementation, friendly projects, third-party orders, or a full-fledged experience in a team, all this can give new knowledge, consolidate existing ones, introduce to unfamiliar features, lead to unexpected but effective solutions.