About

Oleg Gutsol
Hiking in Pennsylvania.


Working.

My name is Oleg Gutsol.
I live and work in Toronto, Canada.

 

What is going on?

  • I am always looking for talented, inspired and cool people to work with.
  • I co-founded 500px — the best photo community and photo portfolio service.
  • I co-created Beruphoto and RuPhotography — the biggest LiveJournal photo aggregators.
  • My first computer was a custom made ZX Spectrum. I was fascinated by it.
  • I wrote my first ‘hello world’ program at the age of 9. It was in Basic.
  • At 14 I discovered Internet and was blown away. To this day I still am.
  • I love photography and I love travel. I sometimes take photo assignments.
  • I sometimes organize photo shoots for amateur photographers.
  • I love being outside, especially hiking the mountains.
  • I will climb Everest before I die.
  • I published my first book — Seeing Clearly in 2010.
  • I once met a shaman in the Peruvian amazon and he changed my view of life, death, purpose and dedication.
  • I had a fair bit of adventures earlier in my life and I am grateful for those experiences.

 

Things I am good at

  • Building things on the web.
  • Building teams.
  • Writing Ruby on Rails and PHP code.
  • Dealing with scalability issues.
  • Dealing with people.
  • Photography

 

If you think we should work together — write me an email to: oleg@500px.com