About

Hiking in Pennsylvania.

Working.
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