Dear Visitor,


I am an Engineer, Scientist, Artist, and Philosopher. It's a lot, I know, but I can't help it... This is how my mind works.

This is my personal site. My public life is split between:

  • working in famous software companies -- documented in detail on LinkedIn
  • thinking out loud -- compiled into my Lambda Notebook on Medium, Substack
  • building art & photography portfolio -- powering Great Photo Recipes
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Most, if not all of my achievements are largely credited to my wife. She picked me out of a line up, helped set ambitious goals, and pushed to aim higher and higher at every turn. Thank you Оля Simakova for shaping a great life with me and for being the love of my life.

I enjoy working with bright people on challenging problems. People you spend the most time with -- is what defines you. My life wouldn't be the same without help, profound influence, and inspiration of:

  • my mom (for the copper sulfate)
  • my dad (for saving antique books from fire)
  • Fedosiya Vasilievna (for the pancakes)
  • Vladimir Amirkhanian / Владимир Амирханян (for my first radio and telescope)
  • Sergey S. Berdonosov (for letting me study with the best)
  •  Lena Fisenko  (for the Kamasutra)
  • Kutsenok Ilya Borisovich (for the first PC XT)
  • Alexey Vertegel (for teaching me play chess)
  • Alexey Savchenko (for being a life-long friend and showing how to live a life to the fullest)
  • Askar Kuchumov (for bringing me to America)
  • Martin Newcomb (for teaching me hard work)
  • Dmitry Blok (for Kruglinski and for helping me become a software engineer)
  • Alanas Petrauskas (for Canada and for the island)
  • Alexey Pogrebtsov (for Bézier functions)
  • Richard Underwood (for the first lessons is software architecture)
  • Peggy O'Neil (for being a human manager)
  • Michael Lenaghan (for teaching me strategy, for showing me the way of Lisp and AI)
  • Wendel Lacombe (for teaching me to work on my career)
  • Vlad Bilousov (for introducing me to Jesus)
  •  Dmitri Papichev  (for mushroom hunting and sincere friendship)
  • Jason White (for showing me how to fight and win a law suite)
  • Grant Ritchie (for teaching me corporate and tax law)
  • Arlen Ritchie (for cognac leather Italian shoes)
  • Mark Evelyn (for sharing my vision and correcting my words)
  • Pulat Yunusov (for being a great engineer and even greater attorney)
  • Katy Wang (for the user interface)
  • Alexey Kasatkin (for teaching me Java)
  • Igor Katkov (for being original and difficult to control)
  • Vitaly Ayzenberg (for being a tennis grand master and a true friend)
  • Kate Ayzenberg (for crepes cooking competition, fishing and bleach)
  • Dennis Tito (for showing me that the billionaires are no different from normal people)
  • Michael Lenaghan (for the quality of life)
  • Rajesh (Nat) Natarajan (for teaching me leadership and to be patient)
  • Osama Bedier (for having a green thumb)
  • Tim Kimmet (for showing me how it's done)
  • Shahid Khan (for goal setting)
  • Rene Aeberhard (for being an architect of another kind)
  • Josh Walker (for accepting me)
  • Neal Sample (for the Trust Equation)
  • Joel Yarbrough (for being a 110% Wharton graduate)
  • Aron Lee (for helping me start things up)
  • Dmitry Simakov (for choosing your own way)
  • Angela Lai (for being Googley)
  • David Butcher (for being RESTful)
  • Tom Stanis (for teaching me not to ask questions, which have deterministic answers)
  • Lora Simakova (for the world's best hugs)
  • Daniel Issen (for the Conway's law)
  • John Cox (for not doing a single ancestor query and for the reading list)
  • Nikki Simakova (for the unconditional love)
  • John Orr (for the content object models)
  • Denis Baranov (for the house on top of the hill)
  • Alfred Spector (for the append-only file mode)
  • Mike Gainer (for the world peace)
  • Samuel Fleming Lewis and Stephen Kladder (for the interior design)
  • Adam Feldman (for a dual degree and for teaching me how to negotiate win-win)
  • Michael Lenaghan (for the passive and active guidance)
  • Maggie Johnson (for the freedom)
  • Peter Norvig (for the telescope and Google's hybrid approach to research)
  • Ujjwal Singh (for the equal opportunity and inclusion)
  • Issa Eshima (for the Renaissance)
  • Randy Kim (for accepting my legal advice)
  • Max Simakov (for bringing back the ball)
  • Iain Grant (for breaking the ceiling)
  • Ray Dalio (for the Principles)
  • Dima Liakh (for <REDACTED>)
  • Jenna Freedberg (for letting me step into the same river twice)
  • Scott Zawalski (for accepting me)
  • Ron Novak (for your service)
  • Jen Novak (for landscape lights)
  • Keith Boreham (for poker lessons)
  • Karen Boreham (for Pavlova)
  • Vic Iglesias (for DevGraph)
and hundreds of others.

Thank you for stopping by, yours,

Dr. Pavel Simakov



PS: I have two dogs.
Please contact me for a large reward if either one ran away and you found them.
White & fluffy is Nikki: microchip 985111000056514 or 985 111 000 056 514.
Black & fluffy is Max: microchip 985112010083983 or 985 112 010 083 983.