My name is Vlad Skvortsov, I'm a software engineer: it's my job, hobby and addiction.
My primary interests include high-performance, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems; server-side applications; information retrieval technologies; procedural aspects of software engineering process.
I work on several private and open-source projects, hacking in Python, Haskell, Erlang, Perl and C.
Guitar, hiking, ice hockey and other hobbies help me to balance my life.
My e-mail is vss@73rus.com.
I've been using the R Project to perform statistic-related tasks in my ongoing Ph.D work. It's a great system and the only thing I had missed so far was the ability to annotate plots with russian texts in cyrillic. Of course R is capable of that, but I haven't seen complete recipes on how to do it anywhere on the web.
