Today we get a bonus interview! Welcome to our Monday blog topic, Interview with a Wiki Ninja!
Today's interview is with...
Alexander Belotserkovskiy - Profile
Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?
I am Alexander Belotserkovskiy and I am Windows Azure MVP Russia (first and the only one for now :) ). I am working in Tomsk Polytechnic University as engineer and my responsibilities include such activities as supercomputing cluster maintenance, content writing, teaching, and many other. I am also the manager of Microsoft Innovation Center in Tomsk. I am specialized in ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure, HPC (MPI).
What are your big projects right now?
I consult customers on how to use Windows Azure properly according to their product architecture. I am writing now a book on Windows Azure in Russian. My articles are often published on MSDN, TechNet and other resources. Now I am planning to write a course on Windows Azure for Intuit.ru.
What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?
TechNet Wiki is a great collaboration tool that enables many scenarios. It looks like it is a simple Wiki, but it embraces tons of developers and ITPros.
What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?
Fairly – TechNet Wiki is not related to my job at all. I am writing articles and other content and then post it to TechNet Wiki for my own fun.
On what articles have you collaborated with other community members on #TNWiki? What was that experience like?
I don’t have any experience of writing content in collaboration with someone. It is not my style - I am writing content when I have the inspiration for, so it is very complicated process to align my inspiration with someone.
On what Wiki articles do you spend most of your time?
On the ones that have many formatting issues, haha. :)
I think that Wiki syntax is not as simple as I want it to be. But I spend most of my time on big articles like “Windows Azure & Java”.
What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?
Any articles on Windows Azure architecture. When I saw some details on that for the first time, I couldn’t imagine how a man could design such a complicated system.
Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?
German guy Horizon_Net. He is very bright and he invests a lo-o-ot of time into community content development.
Do you have any comments for product groups about TechNet Wiki?
It would be great if I could transfer my achievements to a new Wiki account.
Since Alexander has humbly not included links to show off his great work, I will! Here are some of his articles:
- Сравнение SQL Azure и локального SQL Server (ru-RU)
- Windows Azure, приложение на Java "Hello World" с использованием JDK 1.6 и Tomcat 7.
- Руководство по доставке SQL Azure (ru-RU)
Thank you to Alexander Belotserkovskiy for contributing so much to TechNet Wiki, which impacts Windows Azure content and the Russian Microsoft community!
Please ask Alexander your follow-up questions in the comments below!
- Ninja Ed