Korotaev Alexander has been in front-end development for over 6 years now and is equally if not more passionate about game development. His talk, WebGL and 2D: simple as Web on 21 September, will explore exactly this fusion of web and game development. Here we explore a bit more of his journey this far.
One adjective to describe you: Fanatical
Editor you would marry: Vim
Favorite OS: Linux
Most productive time of the day: Before and after my teammates working hours
Go-to drink (to work and to twerk): Many non-russians think that I prefer Vodka but it is absolutely false. I never drink at work and never tried to twerk)
Never have you ever: Played guitar but I like to watch those who play well
Programming pet peeve: I tend to forgot about environment variables
One thing you don’t want to miss in Nepal: I really want to meet yaks and touch them
Tell us one fun fact about you?
What keeps you going in life?
Couple of years ago my hobby was extreme rooftops climbing and underground discovering.
My ambitions to be an interesting person and more than {framework} user.
What can we expect from you at wwktm2019?
I want to inspire attendees to play with WebGL.
Why is the topic relevant today and especially for wwktm2019?
Websites become graphical perfection. It’s not just content. And design is not the only thing to make one application differ from another yet. We need to make more and more prefect graphical animations, interactive visualizations all of which are very accessible with WebGL.
Any background reading you would suggest to those that want to come prepared?
Not so much. Maybe learn something about React if you don’t work with it.
What is the best and worst thing about your career so far?
Best: I became a games developer in bank because I declare my hobby in any corner.
Worst: I spent many years on jQuery + PHP without any self-improvement.
What is your advice to people wanting to be where you are in the industry?
Become a fanatic person and greedy for new knowledge not only in tech. Any positive experience can be applicable to your career! Person who choose right job never works anymore. (russian proverb).
Link to video you want the world to see
What are you most excited about for wwktm2019?
Nepal! I have never seen Himalayas and I am really interested to talk with developers from there.
