How professionals work. Sergey Strelkov, Head of CROC’s own developments

The heading "How Professionals Work" continues to acquaint the readers of "Megamind" with the working habits of various specialists in the IT market.

Having come to the company as a development engineer, Sergey consistently became a technical manager and head of the development team. He took the lead in customized development in 2012, having already 10 years experience in implementing projects for the largest state customers of CROC.

Under the leadership of Sergey, CROC developers create the largest software solutions for automating unique business processes and informatization of entire industries. He himself took part in the creation of the state automated system “Elections”, the development of software for ballot processing systems (KOIB), the automation of the “Unified State Examination” and the “All-Russian Agricultural Census” of 2006, the introduction of the Rosatom unified industry-wide document management system.

Current Location:
Moscow, although after the opening of development offices in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, one has to move more often.
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Current place of work:
CROC

Education:
MGTU them. N.E. Bauman

One word that best describes how you work:
Thoughtfully

How many hours a day do you work?
On weekdays I try not to count, on weekends I devote maximum time to family and children.

Current mobile device:
HTC One M8

Current computer:
At work, a relatively commonplace, but powerful "hardware" - a workstation and a laptop. At home - Intel NUC 5i7 is an amazingly productive thing for such a small box screwed to the back of the monitor.

Without any applications, programs, utilities you can not live?
Visual Studio, Spring Tool Suite - there are no former developers.

Which life hack helps you save time?
I practically do not use messengers. Sometimes it is worth while for a short time to minimize mail, turn off alerts. This practice works especially well in the morning “until it has begun” and in the evening “when it is already over”. In the daytime, it’s not so easy to be in a “flow state.”

What kind of to-do manager do you use?
Only Outlook and Evernote.

What do you listen when you work?
Rather, "whom." Colleagues, customers, partners. When solving a problem does not involve communication, it is most effective for me to work in silence, if possible. It is good that the company has no open space in their classic sense.

What are you reading now?
"Brain. Quick Guide. Quite often we exchange literature at work, and this book was presented to me by a colleague. It is curious to read an unusual pair of authors - a neurologist and a business consultant.

Which book from the last read was remembered the most?
From the last read - Going Postal (Terry Pratchett), I like good English humor. If you take a deeper retrospective - “Business in the style of funk” Kjell A. Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale. Inspiring to think outside the box. Quite a famous book, translated into 30 languages ​​of the world. Last year, the authors came to the IT Leader Forum.

Do you use e-readers or prefer paper books?
I prefer the book to be interesting, the media can be anything.

How long do you sleep?
For me, a comfortable time to sleep is 7 hours.

Are you an owl or a lark?
It is comfortable for me to periodically change the role of the lark and owls. It does not affect my performance. Introduces a variety of life rhythm.

How do you have breakfast?
I try to have breakfast with my family, a pity, it does not always come out.

How do you spend your time on the way to work / from work?
I listen to podcasts in the car, as an incorrigible motorist.

What advice you have ever been given can you convey to others?
At one time, at the dawn of my career, I was advised to be more human. Sometimes you want to pass this advice to others.