Mykyta Havrylenko

For the past few years I gave myself fully to my work, and at some point it just became my way of living. Five years isn't a long career, but I packed a lot into it. New programming languages, new tools, new ways of thinking, and a lot of different teams and problems along the way.

What I slowly figured out is that all of it is just an instrument. The part that actually matters is the question underneath. What are we trying to achieve, and how do we get there. Everything else comes after that.

The thing I enjoy most is watching other people do well. I keep coming back to one kind of moment, when someone's stuck idea finally starts moving, when a hard problem gets a small nudge and suddenly has a direction. If I can be that nudge, even a little, I'll happily do it for free.

To me, engineering is a form of art. It's a way to put something new into the world and open doors that weren't there before. I'm still working out how to say that cleanly, but that's the gist of it.