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, base)
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.

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, and I have a 300-day Japanese streak on Duolingo. 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.

Multieditor (Online)

An unfinished project for viewing objects, textures, and materials of a user’s 3D model. Written in collaboration with tim2303, using React and Three.js.

Haskell neural network

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

OpenGL renderer

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