CTO "Medusa" - Samat Galimov briefly about what it is to be the main development in the media

Samat Galmat has an interesting experience: from the practice in Yandex, through Bookmate, to the technical director of Medusa. We asked Samata a few questions in order to quickly clarify what it is like to develop a modern media product for a multi-million dollar audience.

Current place of work
- Meduza.io
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Job responsibilities
- I am responsible for all the technical things that exist in Medusa.

What is your working experience?
- Technical director of BookMate, system engineer Sound, a lot of adminstva in any places: Moscow State University, Gulag Museum, a small genetic laboratory.

What is your education: higher (one, two or more), in what specialties?
- Higher, "mathematician, system programmer" in the VMK MSU.

How many people work in your company?
- Approximately 30 editors, 10 programmers, 2 designers, one publisher and CEO.

What software development management methodology does your team use? Why?
- Difficult to answer this question.

Which task manager / issue tracker does your team use repository?
- Trello, teamweek, github, bitbucket.

What tools does your team use for software development?
- It depends on the specialist, to whom that is convenient.

What tools does your team use to test software?
- Each of the guys has something different, stressful tsung'om and samopisnym.

Does the company have internal projects? For what purposes were they created (if any)?
- It is not very clear what is meant. Admin is ours , for example.

Does your company have a system of mentoring, training young professionals - developers, testers, and so on?
- Recently they took a young beginner back-tender to help our rock star, otherwise every one of the guys is a guru.

What kind of to-do manager do you personally use?
- Trello

What other applications, services, utilities you can not do?
- Slack

Which life hack helps you save time?
- Cool extension antonosika.imtqy.com/newsfeed-eradicator .

One word that best describes how you work
- With shame.

If you could write yourself a letter to the past (5-10 years ago), what professional advice would you give yourself?
- Relax, you never know what awaits you around the bend. That which seems to you as a fucking bottom can suddenly turn out to be a door to a brave new world (and this is not a joke).

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