On 28 December I had a very-very long day. In fact, it started on 27 when at night we had a sound record session for our NY party’s corporate movie. In fact, it was a popular Russian cartoon called ‘Winter in Prostokvashino’, and making the movie implied cutting off some parts and adding our voices and songs. We finished about 1am at night, but it was fun trying to get into rhythm of actors of the cartoon. So next day I started early by interviewing everyone in our company (or tried to get everyone) about last year results. I had prepared a questionnaire and wrote down every answer which was really important... read more →
A few days ago I got a good email from our large customer with big thanks to the team - after a lot of efforts we got a version for a specific platform, and it completed a large development cycle. It’s always good to get respect for our work, but we here in Russia can say ‘your thanks is not gurgling’. You may know Russians like to drink Vodka (and other strong beverages) and gurgle is a sound when you pour out from the bottle… so when you hear something like that it means that good words can be also be supplied with some gift or ‘magarych’. So I tried to explain the customer that the team may deserve something more than just a grateful email. After a day our customer came back and asked me about a few details, and then within an hour we received a good Christmas bonus for everyone of the 8 people from the customer’s project team... read more →
You probably know how people love to compete with each other? All those machos out there are always discussing whose muscles bigger, legs stronger and etc. Among science geeks the discussion is usually held about whose brains are better in this or that scientific field, that’s why they produce so much scientific papers each year. Well, that sort of competition could not left out our developers as well. So we decided to show you, dear reader, that among our IT crowd there are also machos-developers, who love to test their wits on the website, famous by its test conducted among professionals in many fields, called Brainbench... read more →
A newbie is coming to the project manager department. Please welcome Andrew Mamontov – our Junior Project Manager! What attracted you to become a siber? Very interesting, agile based schedule of work, nice people working here, some of them I’ve already known and expecting to become acquainted with all of them. What our company will get thanks to you? New man with a lot of questions, but with the new foresight, new ideas, enthusiasm. Hobby? A lot! football, skiing, skating, volleyball, books, music, mathematics, theatres (especially opera and ballet) What are you proud of? I want to get rich and even more rich and even more so there will be a reason to be proud of!... read more →
As a development company from the “capital” of Siberia and its renowned scientific center, we are used to reaching all the highest goals in what we are doing. Our developers adhere to this principle not only in their work, but in their private life as well. One of these days our Flash developer Grigory Dmitrenko, one of the active organizers of the Flash Seminar, tried his strength in parachute jumping. This kind of extreme sport can be taken by enthusiasts in the suburbs of Novosibirsk... read more →
Vyacheslav Rusakov has joined our Java group and Nikita Belyaev — Marketing department as a Technical Writer... read more →
Sergey Arykov has successfully passed numerous tests to become our Project Manager and joined our Project Office under tutorship of Alexey Shpak. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University with honors... read more →
To become our designer, Polina has survived during long portfolio and test task competitions. Besides working with us, Polina continues her extra-mural studies at the Novosibirsk Technical University, loves watching cartoons in the mornings and trains her cat... read more →
Congratulations to Alexey Shpak: our leading Project Manager is now officially known as a Senior Project Manager. Alexey came to Key-Soft several years ago as a junior Java developer and was silently working on his projects until he asked management how he can earn more... read more →