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Vasily Zubarev

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Vasily Zubarev, known as Vastrik or vas3k, is a software engineer and technical writer. He explains computing through illustrated essays and builds open-source applications including TaxHacker, a self-hosted tool for organizing income and expenses.[1][2]

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Vasily Zubarev

Education

Novosibirsk State Technical University

Master’s degree with honors, discipline not specified

2008 – 2014

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Links

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Career

Zubarev’s CV records work at Anytype from July 2024 to June 2025, Parity Technologies from February 2021 to July 2024, and Anaconda from November 2019 to February 2021. His projects included decentralized application prototypes, developer tooling and platform infrastructure. Earlier roles covered logistics, social applications and video communication. The CV lists a master’s degree with honors at Novosibirsk State Technical University, 2008–2014, but does not name the degree’s discipline.[3]

Contributions

An illustrated route into machine learning

“Machine Learning for Everyone” introduces prediction and pattern-finding through familiar problems, then distinguishes approaches such as regression, classification, clustering and neural networks. The essay uses diagrams and concrete examples to reduce the vocabulary barrier. Published in 2018, it is a guide to those foundations rather than an account of today’s language-model capabilities.[4]

From documents to accounting records

TaxHacker accepts receipts, invoices and PDFs, uses a configured model to extract fields and stores the results as structured records. Its features include custom fields, categories and historical currency conversion. The open-source application helps organize documents and review extracted values; it does not establish that a model’s output is correct or that an expense qualifies for a tax deduction.[5]

An administration interface over an existing database

GodMode2 generates create, read, update and delete interfaces for SQL tables, with configurable views, filters, batch actions and access policies. It is a standalone Python application using Flask and SQLAlchemy, allowing an administration interface without requiring the main application to use the same framework. Its repository describes an immature project and asks users to inspect the code before using sensitive data.[6]

Tools, writing & talks

Writing, research & talks

  • Start here

    An illustrated introduction to prediction, common learning tasks and model families, originally published in 2018.

    Start here for vocabulary and visual explanations without mathematical prerequisites. Treat its period-specific examples as historical and use newer references for current generative models.

    Author[4]

Tools

  • Year Planneryear.vas3k.cloud

    Printable one-page planner that lays out a whole year of weeks on a single sheet for at-a-glance planning.

    Catalog workOriginal source
  • GodMode2github.com

    A standalone configurable administration interface for SQL databases.

  • infomate.clubinfomate.club

    RSS aggregator with curated collections and NLP article summarization across hundreds of feeds.

    Catalog workOriginal source
  • vas3k.clubvas3k.club

    Django and Vue source for running an invite-only IT community forum with private membership.

    Catalog workOriginal source
  • TaxHackergithub.com

    A self-hosted application for extracting and organizing invoice, receipt, income and expense data.

References

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  1. [1] vas3k (Vasily Zubarev) · GitHub

    github.com · Checked 2026-10-28

  2. [2] Vastrik

    vas3k.com · Checked 2026-10-28

  3. [3] Vasily Zubarev, CV

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  4. [4] Machine Learning for Everyone — In simple words. With real-world examples. Yes, again — Vastrik

    vas3k.com · Checked 2026-10-28

  5. [5] GitHub - vas3k/TaxHacker: Self-hosted AI accounting app. LLM analyzer for receipts, invoices, transactions with custom prompts and categories · GitHub

    github.com · Checked 2026-10-28

  6. [6] GitHub - vas3k/GodMode2: Semi-automatic admin site generator for any SQL database · GitHub

    github.com · Checked 2026-10-28

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