Hello, my name is George. The name origin is Greek (Γεώργιος) and it means “farmer”: Γεώ – “earth”, εργο – “to work”. In Russian, which is my native language, it is Георгий (or Гоша, Жора and even Егор)—can you tell that Cyrillic alphabet is derived from Greek? But my russian friends call me Yura (Юра) or Yuri (Юрий)—it is much shorter, easier to pronounce and that is what I have in my passport. In Japanese, Yuri (ユリ) means “lily” and is often used to refer to all things lesbian.
I am a software developer from Silicon Valley. Since the early nineties I’ve been writing software professionally and nowadays I enjoy it even more, because many more things are possible thanks to advances in the field. I have a full time job at a big networking company, and I also do various projects on the side under my own company. Often, my side projects are related to my hobbies, which include home automation, HAM radio, rock climbing, running, biking, yoga, playing/recording music, writing and various other pursuits.
