Sylo’s Full Stack Devloper is a free-diving whizz and former cave-dweller who laughs in the face of challenges… Meet Alex.

How long have you worked at Sylo and what do you do here?

I started at Sylo one and a half months ago. Having experience in frontend and backend development, including blockchain frameworks, I joined the team as Full Stack developer.

For now I’ve focused mostly on blockchain things here, which are very fascinating to me.

What is the most exciting part of the job?

The biggest pleasure I get from work is to see the real product. Sylo — is awesome product. The first really working blockchain project in whole the world.

From this arrives my second favourite thing: the Sylo project is very challenging. We are creating things that have never been done before us; working with cutting edge technologies to create real magic.

Such challenges can be solved only with a very smart and experienced team.

It’s a pleasure working in such a ‘dream team.’ :)

Would you say that there is a challenge in what you’re doing at Sylo?

It’s a challenge every day. Sometimes we don’t even know if our ideas will work or not.

There’s only one way to figure out it — to try.

Challenges like this mean my work at Sylo is never boring! We’re creating history with blockchain products.

If you were to describe the team in a phrase, what would you say?

The guys seems like superheroes.

(They make miracles!)

It’s nice to be part of it.

Can you describe your average working day at Sylo?

Solving unsolved challenges from yesterday and discovering new ones for the next few days :)

Where’s your hometown and what’s it like?

I’m from Kiev, Ukraine. A place on the opposite side of the world, which is very common for most of the guys here actually.

Before joining this company, I thought that I was the only one Ukrainian who had left footprints in Kiwi land...

But here I am faced with disappointment: Alice, our awesome UX/UI designer is also from Ukraine, so she was first ;)

Do you have any favourite books or movies you’d consider as ‘must’?

I like true stories and autobiographies of people who have had incredible lives or changed the world.

I can recommend the autobiography of Mohandes Gandhi — one of the most notable people in the recent history of the world, and his book is not boring at all.

Another book is My land and my people by the Dalai Lama. Here you can dive into a story of how China conquered the ancient country of Tibet, looking at it through the eyes of a person with one of the biggest hearts, alive today.

When it comes to movies, I like something either very deep and serious or extremely stupid.

Thus, I recommend to you Movie 43 — don’t pay attention to IMDB’s rating ;)

If you were able to choose a superpower, what it would be?

We have enough superpowers.

Thinking is definitely the ‘super power’ of the Homo Sapien species. Without this super power I wouldn’t be able to work at Sylo.

If you had to start over and change your life, what would you do?

There are a lot of things that I want to try. Maybe building eco-houses or sailing all over the world.

Share a secret talent…

My opinion is that talent is made of 10% success and the other 90% is working hard on it.

But if you started to do something in childhood, this skill can be well developed by the time you’re an adult.

I started freediving at 12, so I’m pretty good at it now.

Describe your perfect day off.

I think the best things are spontaneous. So — something spontaneous, that I have no idea now what it would be, but it would be better to do it with good friends!

Fill in the blank: ‘If you really knew me, you’d know_____.’

That I used to live in caves and can survive in any conditions!

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