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
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)
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.