Cryptographer and software engineer, passionate Linux user and coffee addict.

Ruslan holds MSc degree in Information and Communication Systems Security from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, specializing in symmetric cryptography. As a graduate he joined JSC "Institute of Information Technologies" to conduct research and development of symmetric cryptographic algorithms, where he collaborated with a team of cryptographers designing block cipher "Kalyna" adopted as a national standard of Ukraine in 2015. Ruslan now works at Symantec, Inc. headquarters in California.