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Anatolii Papenko

It all started at age of probably 10, from modifying (reverse-engineering, sprites replacement) .jar games on Siemens CX75 to have fun, then scripting trainers/bots for offline and online games. Then scripting in Pascal that made me feel like I'm some kind of god who "creates" stuff out of nothing. Moving forward, a lot of interesting mini-pet projects on ActiveScript, Flash, earn first money on CIS social media vkontakte by publishing online games with in-app purchases. At age of 15-16 went through Java training and got the first job with Big Data in a local company with government contracts (Ukraine). Little did I know that I'll still enjoy what I'm doing throughout all the years.