About the Author

Ilya Shpigor is a software developer in a flight simulator manufacturing company in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His work is in developing real-time computing systems that work under heavy computational loads. Ilya prefers to use open source software products, such as the Linux operating system and GNU toolchain, for his daily tasks.

He has participated in ALT Linux distribution and Wine open source software development before his current job.

Ilya has experience in cross-platform software development, porting applications to other computing platforms, and real-time computing systems design. He is interested in automating routine tasks and researching the capacities of different programming languages to solve specific problems.

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