About me

Software Engineer, Kazan, Russia
merkushin@gmail.com
+7 987 297-07-92

I was born in 1984 in Kazan. Studied at a school with an in-depth study of the German language.

I became interested in computers at the age of 13. At first, it was games, then trying myself in programming and as a website builder. Something went wrong with the games, but the last two activities interested me very much.

In 2007 I graduated from Kazan State Technological University (aka KSTU), Faculty of Management and Automation, specializing in Automated Information Processing and Management Systems.

In 2003 I began to study PHP, studied on my own small projects. At the end of 2004, I completed the first work to order.

In the fall, after graduating from the institute, I left for St. Petersburg and worked for almost six months at the Express-site company, where we worked on a platform for quickly creating sites. But at the end of March 2008, I had to return to Kazan.

From August 1, 2008, to September 19, 2010, I worked at the Information Project Management company. Its most famous works (and projects) are the Kazan Portal and the Electronic Government. Nowadays, document workflow systems have become a top-rated product, but I had nothing to do with it.

Passed the exam in May 2010 and became a Zend Certified Engineer.

From September 20, 2010 to February 28, 2013, I worked in the Kazan development office of the Mamba company. Here we have developed various niche projects: monamour.ru, homepage.am, play.mamba.ru and other.

On March 1, 2013, I moved to work at AdMe Group (TheSoul Publishing).

In December 2014 received Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.6 Developer.

I’ve been working for Automattic Inc. since October 4th, 2021.