Hi! I'm Viktor
I'm a Software Engineer from Latvia.
Sharing my learnings about software development and building products and services.
You can find me on the web:
- Twitter: @victorysokolov
- Github: @victory-sokolov
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sokolov-viktor
My short story
šØāš I graduated from university in 2020 and have a Bachelor's degree in the Computer Science.
I consider myself a self-taught developer since I learned most of the stuff outside of my studies.
During my studies, I started to do a Freelance projects in the Web development and automating various web tasks using Python
.
I got my first project from Fiverr in yearly 2015, it was a 5$ project to write a simple automation script using Imacros + JavaScript
.
YES, this is the first money I got from Freelancing it was very exciting to earn your first bucks on the internet.
Back in the day, Imacros was a popular extension for Chrome
and Firefox
that was able to record simple activities in the browser.
To extend Imacros abilities I used JavaScript
for more complex scripts and since then I have moved to Python
for creating more robust automation scripts.
I wrote a lot of scripts for E-commerce websites, to parse products and upload them into a dashboard.
Besides web scraping, I developed websites using WordPress
at an early stage and build few websites using JS/JQuery
and PHP
.
Hobbies
Besides tech stuff, I like to run long distances. My longest distance is 21 km. šŖ I lift weights and trying to learn some basics Calisthenics moves. I used to play basketball and still love it, but haven't played seriously it for years.