Ivan Danishevsky.

Multiple active eruptions seen up close — by helicopter where roads cannot reach. Watching molten rock decide what the planet looks like next is not a metaphor. It is a research method.

Played Dota 2 from every continent — Antarctica included — usually with Starlink in the kit. Some matches have been more interesting for the connection story than the score. Vanuatu, Iceland, icebreakers, beach huts, mountain passes.

Found at live tournaments regularly — partner badge, fan badge, sometimes both. Multiple The International runs, HLTV Awards, BLAST events. The industry I helped build still pulls me back as a player and a watcher.

Multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Icebreakers through frozen seas, walking on pack ice, the kind of silence that only exists where the map runs out and the cold makes every system honest.

Snorkeled alongside sperm whales and humpbacks in open ocean. Touched living animals the size of buses. The kind of moment that resets your sense of scale and your sense of patience for everything else.

Inside-the-wreck dives where the wreck has already become a habitat. Coral walls. Deep blue. A different way of watching how systems decay, adapt, and get rebuilt by other species.

Flown drones across most of the places I've been — including a couple lost to volcanoes and one buried somewhere in Bolivia's salt flats. Love FPV. The same instinct as software: build, push to limit, learn from the crash, fly again.

On a board since fifteen. Several injuries put it on hold for a while. Back on the slopes now, slower but still there.

Cars and racing since childhood — Tesla, manuals, track days, transcontinental drives. Long drives are a research method too: roads, fuel networks, signage, what a country values when nobody is watching.

Sing karaoke regularly, occasionally record in a real studio. Booth, headphones, pop filter. Recordings on request — for friends with serious patience.