About

Hello, I am Nikita Chashchinskii. This is my personal website.

Professionally I am a software engineer with an interest in game development, cryptography, and virtual reality.

My other interests are European occultism and esotericism, philosophy, economics, history, aesthetic theory, story theory, music theory, physics and mathematics. I am fluent in English and in Russian. My favorite speculative fiction author is Neal Stephenson.

The most prominent open source projects I have worked on so far in roughly chronological order include:

• Contributions to Amethyst game engine, my first serious software project.
• Adding support for various package managers to renovatebot, including Rust's cargo and Python's poetry package manager support.
• Designing the technical part of and implementing the initial version of bip300301_enforcer for Layer Two Labs as well as implementing and contributing to various BIP300/BIP301 sidechains.

Here you will find my writing on various subjects I am interested in, as well as technical write ups on some personal technical projects I am working on.

Opinions are my own and do not reflect the positions of any of my employers or other associates.