Me

2025-10-02

Hi. My name is Luka.

I am passionate about programming, reading blogs, meditation, and skiing.

I have programming experience in the following languages:

C/C++ (Vulkan, OpenGL, WinAPI, SDL2)
Haskell (Hakyll, Servant)
Python (pytorch, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn)
Javascript (React, Nodejs, Express.js, three.js, Rollup(Webpack))

I use Linux (Arch) and can administer it at a basic level. The general coding style I try to adhere to can be described by grug, but often just can’t stop golfing the code.

My verifiable achievements include:

1st place at the Kolmogorov Readings (2023) - I was a lead developer of a team writing a 3D graphics engine in Vulkan
a prize at the regional stage of the All-Russian School Olympiad in programming (2024).

My German is B2, English is C1, Japanese is bad. I use Anki to continuously improve.

My worldview largely aligns with LessWrong and the Bay Area in general. Although I have never been there physically, my spirit lives there.

Projects

In random order:

shoggothstaring.com

This site is written in Haskell; the code is here.

It loads slowly and is best viewed on a PC. Inside, you’ll find a 3D engine where you can ride a bicycle with a waving flag, featuring tens of thousands of cows with wings, a Mandelbrot fractal in the sky, and customizable controls.

Web raymarching system (Online)

A system for drawing 3D graphics using the ray marching algorithm on the web with GPU acceleration and dynamic shader creation.

Haskell neural network

MNIST classifier from scratch. Backpropagation, online learning, console interface.

Bitcoin in Haskell

A minimalist bitcoin implementation written from scratch, inspired by Karpathy’s approach. It covers elliptic curves, SHA-256 primitives, standard-compliant data serialization. It is possible to send real (well, virtual) money with it.

OpenGL renderer

A real-time 3D engine written from scratch in C++ with deferred lighting, transparency, multi-texturing, and animation (DAE/Collada, forward kinematics).