Designed and built an interactive control-room dashboard that simulates power failures, system alerts, and plant-level recovery workflows. This dashboard is now part of the ELSA simulation environment for training mission-critical operators.
Launched in 2020 as a pandemic response initiative. Grew it from ad-hoc food distributions into an organized community aid platform. Ongoing role in fundraising, digital outreach, and campaign coordination.
Built a working sign‑in prototype modeled after real airline portals. Wrote the backend in Python/Flask with SQLite for user sessions. Got hands‑on with how aviation IT systems manage data and authentication.
Evaluated financial trends, project performance, and customer behavior using SQL, Python (pandas, NumPy, seaborn), and Excel. Analyzed cash‑flow cycles, supplier terms, and visitor spending to identify savings and improve efficiency. Built monthly performance decks in PowerPoint.
Helped run events and programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Handled logistics, checked people in, and made sure everyone felt included.
Led technical development and product design: the user experience, visual identity, core features, infrastructure, and integrations.
Built a tax‑compliance platform for accountants and business owners in Uzbekistan: a full web app, a desktop app, a PWA for mobile, and the two brand sites behind it. It works out every filing and payment a business owes and reminds them ahead of each deadline, and its AI assistant answers questions with citations to the actual tax code.
Designed and built an internal hotel operations platform for a 162‑room hotel, digitizing the entire workflow for housekeeping, maintenance, and front‑desk teams. Shipped it with Docker and a Caddy reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS on a VPS, where it runs as the hotel's daily operations tool.
A running index
What I am playing, watching, listening to, reading and building. Updated whenever something earns its place.
What is in my ears on the walk in.
Verse worth keeping in your head.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Tell us, ye dead! will none of you, in pity
To those you left behind, disclose the secret?
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…
But be alive — only this matters —
alive and burning to the end.
A short song for a lost son, sung by a man who has run out of other things to do. Not reproduced here; it is still in copyright.
Watched more than once, which is the only test that counts.
On whenever I am working.
The scene that made me go and find the opera it came from.
Passages I go back to.
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Spelled out across six photographs on my photo wall.
When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
In duels of strategy you must move the opponent’s attitude. Attack where his spirit is lax, throw him into confusion, irritate and terrify him.
You may have utensils of gold, but your discourse, opinions, beliefs, actions and desires are fragile as earthenware.
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Winter in the desert, spring in the foothills, almonds in bloom.
Kept for the travelogue stretches rather than the plot.
Never ask me for my opinion, forecast or recommendation. Just ask what I have — or don’t have — in my portfolio.
The less sure you are about what to do, the more important it is to choose options that give you more options in the future.
The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it.
Short enough to carry around.
SenecaWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Marcus AureliusYou have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
EpictetusFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryIf you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Columbia UniversityIn lumine Tuo videbimus lumen — in Your light, we see light.
If you see no light around you, maybe you were meant to be the light.
Latin maximNosce te ipsum — know thyself.
Latin epitaphPestis eram vivus — moriens tua mors ero. Was a plague while alive; dying, I will be your death.
SallustOmnia Romae venalia sunt — everything in Rome has its price.
The ones that shaped how I think about building things.
Terraria
The one that leaks into everything else. The pixel tree on my home page and the Zenith sword you are dragging around this site both come from here.
The Witcher 3
Side quests written better than most main stories. The photo wall borrows its look.
Cyberpunk 2077
Night City as a place rather than a backdrop.
Skyrim
The one you keep reinstalling. Ten years on it still finds a new corner to show you.
Minecraft
The other half of the sandbox habit, and quietly the reason I like building systems other people poke at.
Dota 2
The one that punishes ego. Five people solving the same problem in real time.
Counter-Strike 2
Pure mechanics. Nothing to hide behind.
Beholder
A landlord asked to inform on his tenants. Every choice costs somebody something.
Beholder: Conductor
Same bleak world, new seat. The series keeps finding fresh ways to make you complicit.
LEGO The Hobbit
Middle-earth with the seriousness turned off. Unembarrassed comfort playing.
P.T.
A first‑person horror that loops one L‑shaped corridor until you work out how to break it. Put out free under a made‑up studio name, revealed as a teaser for a Silent Hills that was cancelled, then pulled from the store. The installs left on old consoles are the only copies there are.
Samarkand, and what comes with it.
If people can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Firdavs. A note I keep coming back to.
He chased butterflies and beetles as seriously as he wrote. Some of the Carabidae he cared about were found here.
The people who make the rest of it worth doing.
Things I have built, and where they live.
ibktax.uz
The accountant’s platform: a deadline calendar, an AI assistant that cites the law, and a document library on one connected system. Answer six questions and it maps every obligation your companies carry.
ibookkeeper.uz
Registration, accounting, payroll, foreign trade and legal support in one Samarkand company: the ecosystem the rest of these sit inside.
twitterbikes.uz
Bikes, frames, wheels and accessories. I led the experience, the visual identity, the core features, the infrastructure and the integrations.
simuielts.com
Not my product. I help out from time to time with debugging and design decisions. It puts you in front of the IELTS computer test before it meets you: full practice under real exam conditions, plus free essay checking.
unikid.ink
An education platform inside the iBookkeeper ecosystem. One‑on‑one SAT preparation across both sections, three to six months, with the target score written into the contract before lessons start.
Hotel operations platform
Housekeeping, maintenance and front‑desk work for a 162‑room hotel on one board: tasks raised, claimed, reassigned and closed by room. Shipped on Docker behind a Caddy reverse proxy; it runs the building day to day.
school-37.com
The first version of the site for my high school in Samarkand, built in 2021 as things reopened after the pandemic. The first thing I ever shipped for someone other than myself.
ibktax.online
The working platform behind IBKTax: a deadline calendar, a compliance dashboard and an AI assistant that accountants in Uzbekistan use day to day. ibktax.uz is the front door; this is the product itself.
Karina Paper Products
A full CRM for the third largest B2B paper distributor in the market, built around how this one company actually works. GPS tracking on deliveries, warehouse management, order flows and receivables in one system.
Terrokand
A flying‑carpet side‑scroller built over 48 hours for GameFest Uzbekistan with team Arcanoids, where I did the core level and game design. It runs on a custom 2D canvas engine written in TypeScript and ships as a Windows build through Electron. Submitted to the jam; copyright rests with gamefest.uz.
Where to find the rest of it.
More coming soon.
One of the reasons I hate book lists is that if someone asks me the stupid question "what's the best book you've ever read?", my answer would depend on the time of the day, bicycling conditions, freshness of the last meal, ambient temperature, & current price of OTM options.
— Nassim Taleb
Nabokov's most intricate and complex novel. You can see touches of his biography as he gave way up to himself, and this is what makes it so entertaining. Every time you read it, you pick up on more allusions, more puns, more inconsistencies in Van's retelling.
His first novel. Love the way his Russian prose is similar to his English, with all the humor transliterated to his later works. The way that humans idealize their memories is neatly described.
A great essay about fractals, the concepts behind them, and their applications.
Work of the best person who qualifies to write a book about LLM's.
Not a big fan of the divine and the gods. I think stoics mostly associated gods with nature as a whole or a divine Deity, but that is just me and my skeptical empiricist mind. A great read.
I love everything related to vampires. The Great successor of Carmilla.
Two stories well connected to each other. Gives Studio Ghibli vibes as the reader is ambivalent towards antagonists.
A splendidly described societal structure of modern churches and alike.
The 1921 dystopia of a glass city where citizens are numbers, banned in the Soviet Union before it could be published there. Orwell reviewed it shortly before writing 1984.
San Francisco from the Summer of Love through the Moscone and Milk assassinations to the early AIDS years, and how the city broke itself and put itself back together.
An argument that speculative bubbles are sometimes how a society pays for the infrastructure it could not otherwise justify, and how that breaks a stretch of stagnation.
Passions: RPGs (The Witcher, Cyberpunk), Sandbox Games (Terraria, Minecraft), Gothic Fiction, and Working on Small Tech Ideas Whenever Possible.
