How do IT professionals work? Daniil Pivovarov, Vscale

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    We continue to question specialists about work and leisure hours, professional habits, the tools they use, and much more.

    It will be interesting to find out what unites them, in which they contradict each other. Perhaps their answers will help to identify some general patterns, useful tips that will help many of us.

    Today our guest is Daniil Pivovarov from Vscale . He regrets the lack of a technical background, and also sees a way to increase efficiency in the correctly selected rest frequency.

    What do you do in the company?

    I lead the vscale.io project. I am engaged in development planning, I manage the roadmap, product economy. I interact a lot with marketing and support.

    One word (phrase) best describes the way you work:

    better phrase: a lot with junked.

    How many hours a day do you devote to work?

    Probably an average of 10 to 15.

    How many hours do you sleep?

    6-8 hours.

    What else do you do along the way to / from work? Does it take a lot of time on the road?

    I used to live an hour by metro and about two hours by car, mostly read (if by metro).

    Fortunately, I now live a 20-minute drive from the office. This is very cool, although no longer read.

    What kind of to do manager do you personally use?

    Google keep.

    What task manager / issue-tracker / repository do you use?

    JIRA, GitLab.

    What working environment are you using? Frameworks, other third-party products?

    Google Docs, draw.io are irreplaceable for me.
    I work constantly in Confluence.

    As an IDE - JetBrains products: PyCharm, DataGrip. Well and Vim, of course. Nowhere without him.

    Does your department have any internal projects, libraries, and why were they created?

    We at Selectel have our own time series database. As far as I know, it was created for internal tasks, now it is an open source project.

    Also, once colleagues made a client for VNC, as an alternative to the popular NoVNC. It is used, for example, by the Open Source panel for managing servers - Ajenti.

    In fact, there are a lot of internal libraries. If there is an understanding that we have done something that solves our problem and can be useful to the community, this will definitely get into our github.

    What annoys you the most when you work?

    Persuasion. I hate to persuade to work, although sometimes you have to.

    What kind of professional literature would you recommend?

    Based on my specificity of work, this is probably Adizes: “An ideal leader”, “Corporate life cycle”.

    Very, and far from only in work, Afanasyev’s theory of psycho-yoga helps. It is revealed in a work entitled The Syntax of Love. She was recommended to me by my mentor at the dawn of the formation of my interest in management and, since then, this is my handbook.

    What do you prefer: electronic readers or paper books?

    Unfortunately, electronic readers. They are more convenient.

    What equipment (computers, tablets, smartphones) and operating systems do you prefer at work and at home?

    For a long time everything was on Linux and Android, but now I have completely switched to the Apple ecosystem, and I like it.

    Do you listen to music when you work?

    Yes many. Mainly in order to "white noise" and increase concentration over the task.

    The only situation in which it can interfere with me is when compiling the documentation. You have to work hard on the wording, and the music is a bit confusing.

    Which life hack allows you to be more effective?

    I try to rest every quarter for 3-4 days, once a year - a week, once - 2. You need to be able to abstract in time and give yourself a break. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to observe such a regime and this noticeably affects my emotional background and the possibilities of concentration. However, if you still manage to give yourself a break - the effectiveness for some time can exceed its 100%.

    What applications and services can you do without in work or in your personal life?

    Google inBox, Calendar.

    What professional advice from the past could you give yourself?

    Develop the technique. Now it’s not enough for me that technical background, which I managed to work out before I moved away from applied work with technologies.

    What would you recommend to a person trying to go the same way?

    Create tasks for yourself, solve them with pleasure. Look for this pleasure in what you do. Without it, becoming a really cool specialist is impossible.

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