5×5 with Vlad: Kayaking in Outer Space
Vlad is our very own Mr. Perfect with all the looks and the skills a man could dream about. Learn more about a Publisher Manager in his prime in our little interview.
1. Describe yourself in three words.
Open-minded, perfectionist, reasonable.
2. What do you love most about your position?
The endless process of discovery and improvement. I believe they call it optimization, but it sounds a bit chore-ish that way. The point is that it ends up with a new perspective on how to make something better and that’s what I’m about.
3. What is your favorite pastime?
Anything that makes you move. From football to kayaking, intense physical exertion clears my head like nothing else and makes the rest of my day flow.
Notice the Goofy cap. That’s fun and action all at once.
4. What makes an ideal vacation for you?
The right mixture of active sightseeing and relaxing with a beer over a puzzle of some sort. A schedule of activities so tight not a thought about work slips in. Plenty of time for that later.
5. What are your top 5 songs and movies?
Songs:
Bon Jovi – It`s My Life
Metallica – Unforgiven II
Nightwish – Planet Hell
Solution .45 – Lethean Tears
Trivium – Departure
Movies:
Star Wars
The Fifth Element
The Sixth Sense
Seven Pounds
The Green Mile
Here are some tidbits about Vlad’s life that will show you what he is all about:
– Chelsea FC fan for over 11 years. Visiting their home stadium in near future. Blue is the color!
That hand on the bottom might as well be Vlad’s
– Even though most of the songs in my playlist involve a lot of screaming and ear-shattering riffs, the stuff I wake up to would stop a moshpit in seconds. Talking Enigma-level chill here, helps me focus on the day ahead. Can’t go full throttle 24/7, got to pace the intensity and build it up.
– I’m big into classic works about stoicism and perseverance like Martin Eden, Trilogy of Desire, Burning Daylight, and Atlas Shrugged.
– Forming a killer floorball team with my workmates lately. Our first serious match was a success, and we’re hungry for more blood.
– Completely fascinated with outer space as our least explored frontier. Stars, nebulae, galaxies: everything magnificent, vast and mysterious.