Projects
These days my work is SOSW. Everything below the fold is an archive of older hobby and freelance projects.
SOSW — current work
SOSW is what I do now. With colleagues and open-source
enthusiasts we maintain sosw — an open-source
framework for orchestrating AWS Lambda — run training programs for developers,
and take on consulting and architecture work for serverless, event-processing,
and data-processing systems. The code is on GitHub.
The rest of SOSW’s projects will move to the sosw.app site once we build its project list.
Projects archive
Not a portfolio — just a list of hobby projects. I never set out to be a designer or a developer, and most of these are frozen at their last available state.
phpbb.aliyah.co — Hebrew flashcards
Flashcards are a very effective learning tool. When I started learning Hebrew I found nothing that satisfied my expectations for language flashcards, so I decided to build my own. The application is written in PHP and reuses the phpBB3 template engine and user management. The database now holds about 1,000 Hebrew words and around 15,000 other records.
Loituma.ru
In 2006 a Flash animation of a Japanese anime clip set to “Ievan Polkka” by the Finnish folk band Loituma went viral across the Russian internet. I registered the right domain names, and a simple homepage went up within a week. Through 2006 the site drew 50,000–300,000 unique visitors and up to 1 TB of data per month — a fine example of “passive” traffic, since I essentially never maintained it after those first couple of weeks.
IEVA.ru
A tool for managing home DVD libraries, with the option to share discs with neighbours and friends and to keep track of who borrowed what — built back when DVDs were popular. The era of DVDs ended sooner than I managed to make the project popular; I kept it running a while longer to post my own film reviews.
Cher fan club — 199*
As a kid I was a huge fan of Cherilyn Sarkisian La Pier — better known as Cher — so I published a Russian fan page listing almost all of her work. Plain HTML with one JS tool we would now call a “widget”: a builder for designing personal CDs.
The source code is lost.
”Finance and Credit” sub-faculty of MGIMO University — 2000
I helped some friends earn a small bonus in their first university year by building a brochure site for the sub-faculty. Plain HTML with a few Flash interface elements.
The site is offline, but I keep local copies of the source.
”Philosophy and Political Science” sub-faculty of MMA University — 2002
Another brochure site for a sub-faculty, which earned me a small bonus in my second year. Plain HTML with a few Flash interface elements.
The site is offline, but I keep local copies of the source.
TST — MTU-Intel helpdesk portal — 2004
During my first full-time job as a call-centre operator I became a trainer, then built an intranet knowledge base full of manuals, diagnostic tools, and semi-automated algorithms for operators. The staff kept using it for several years after I left.
Source code was the property of MTU-Intel Ltd.
grischenko.ru — version 1 — 2005
The first version of my personal homepage, built on Mambo CMS. It served for many years, even after Mambo went out of support. In early 2014 the CMS collapsed, and I moved the most valuable content over to Wix (and now here).
calls.masterhost.ru — call-centre intranet — 2005
A knowledge base that began on Mambo CMS, to which I added MANY modules. I reckon that between 2005 and 2007 I wrote about half of all my PHP code.
Source code was the property of .masterhost Ltd.
Asterisk PBX analyzer — 2006
We ran Asterisk PBX for the call centre and all local telephony. There were no good tools for analysing Asterisk logs, so I built one: Bash → MySQL → PHP. It also grew tools for managing Asterisk itself — IVR management, callback ordering, registering new agents, and so on.
Source code was the property of .masterhost Ltd.
More at .masterhost — 2005–2007
A whole pile of tools: search and playback of CCTV screenshots, automatic agent timetables, a customer blacklist, agent-activity analyzers, and more.
Source code was the property of .masterhost Ltd.
Another dozen websites — 2005–2008
A little freelancing as a sysadmin and “the guy who deploys websites to hosting” — WordPress, Bitrix, Mambo, Joomla, vBulletin, phpBB, and many other CMSs. These were not my own projects.
Martsevich.ru — 2007
martsevich.ru — a portfolio (Coppermine Photo Gallery + WordPress) for a classmate keen on photography, which I still maintain from time to time. Still running.