{"id":6012,"date":"2014-05-15T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:04:46","slug":"open-mic-spotlight-pavlo-shcelokovskky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-pavlo-shcelokovskky\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Spotlight: Pavlo Shcelokovskky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-5939\">\n<p class=\"lead\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pavlov_headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6014\" alt=\"pavlov_headshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pavlov_headshot.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun. If you\u2019re interested in being featured, please choose five questions from this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/15UCJeJ1YMlqfrXN8SI_Xsba43ZrT21diW8xI6I35Ls8\/viewform\">form<\/a>\u00a0and submit!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having made science in Europe for 12 years (theoretical solid state physics and experimental biophysics), Pavlo Shcelokovskky\u00a0returned back home to the Ukraine and switched to full-time programming. Currently, he is a software engineer at Mirantis Inc. and for the last six months he has been mostly involved in the OpenStack Orchestration program. Follow him on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pshchelo\">@pshchelo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0How would you explain your job to your grandmother?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To my parents I say that I do stuff that makes things like Dropbox (that they know and use) possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0How did you learn to code? Are you self-taught or did you lear in college? On-the-job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Self-taught, mostly. There were some programming courses back in school and University (in Pascal), and I backed up my theoretical research during my PhD with some FORTRAN programming. Six years ago I started to learn and use Python in my research, and that is the love story going ever since. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0What does &#8220;open source&#8221; mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I come from science, I have a special attitude for \u201copen source\u201d. Openness is what really enables scientific progress by letting you build upon work of others and \u201cstand on the giants\u2019 shoulders\u201d. Only recently, the scientific community started to understand that the code they use and produce is also science, and that it needs to be public as well as the research itself. I am proud to be part of a world-wide scale open source project now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.\u00a0What do you think is the single most important factor for the success of OpenStack users in 2014?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sahara. Big Data, for better or worse, is the word of the decade, and providing an integration between big data\u2019s stable horse Hadoop and OpenStack will surely draw in more customers and adopters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0Where is your favorite place to code? In the office, at a local coffee shop, in bed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My home is usually a busy and loud place. \ud83d\ude42 That\u2019s why I prefer to write code in the office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of the OpenStack Open Mic series to spotlight the people who have helped make OpenStack successful. Each week, a new contributor will step up to the mic and answer five questions about OpenStack, cloud, careers and what they do for fun. If you\u2019re interested in being featured, please choose five questions&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/open-mic-spotlight-pavlo-shcelokovskky\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Open Mic Spotlight: Pavlo Shcelokovskky\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6017,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}