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 spent quite some time trying to debug a simple shell script which used a function modifying global variables. The problem turned out to be a different behaviour of a shell function when that's called from a pipeline.
