Freelance web developer: A bit more about me

My name is Nikita Shakhrai and I'm freelance web programmer, currently the developer of a few of big ongoing client's web projects and the lead programmer of the CF-Works these days.

I am Russian and live in Russia, in suburb of the big Saint-Petersburg city.

Originally I got Master's Degree in economics but never worked as economist in fact. During the first year of my career I took programming courses on object-oriented programming (C++ and Java) for one year and once completed, joined the PC service department of the same organization.

I started my programmer's work in 1998 as LAN/system administrator and FoxPro programmer in Regional Department of State Tax Inspection near my home when arrived back from military service. Then I was working as database / GUI programmer in a few organizations and software firms with FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, Oracle, PowerBuilder, Oracle Pro* C, Informix, finally ColdFusion untill got remote full-time ColdFusion job in Enhanced Technologies Inc. in March 2002 by chance and discovered how small our world in fact is. Next step was switching to genuine freelance state and since 2004 I work as freelancer. Not the easiest but definitely the best way of work for a web developer, at least as for me, I love it. Real world. Direct interest in high quality of work. Growing professionalism. Efficiency. Freedom.