UPDATE
4/25/2022 - Since the last update - it feels like the whole life had passed. While the world is burning, I've being better than ever. Traveling the world, for my cs friends, this is my ig https://www.instagram.com/alexanderlebedd/ or twitter https://twitter.com/lebed2045

UPDATE
5/15/2017 - I've settled down in Vancouver for a year of two.

CURRENT MISSION

I'm going to make world round trip (while I still have a little money for tickets) and share that story and try to inspire other people to travel and make the world a more open. Perhaps it sounds populistic but at least I'll try.

ABOUT ME

happy smily talk-active guy with funny/silly russian accent=)
I was born and grew up in small town at Ural Mountains @ Russia, graduated the main Russian University (MSU) @ math department and work as software engineer. Also I went to art school for 9 years to a sculpture major.
I really like meet not just new people but new friends from all over the world.

update (12/10/2014)
Im about 7 months at US already. I used to interning at Facebook as a software engineer. Now I'm trying to pass interviews to another IT company

update (06/2015)
I spent awesome 6 months at Mexico - this country is just amazing!

update (09/2016)
I've spent another 6 months in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1 month in Costa Rica, 2 in Panama and 6 months in Colombia. Colombia is absolutely the best country to far, I hope I can come back one day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I was a host two times at bay area (one of its using this site), and couple of times when I was living at Moscow. It was awesome! It didn't even realized how big and diversity the world is.

Interests

New technologies, sport (sportbikes, skydiving, diving, climbing, workout, bikes riding and sport gymnastics), startups (I'm founder tree companies and one of them is still works! ) science, math, art, meeting interesting people

update (10/2015) last company completed failed so now I am a founder of 4 failed startups :/

Music, Movies, and Books

Never Eat Alone | Keith Ferrazzi

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A few things I'm really proud of: I helped my co-worker do not commit suicide and helped one homeless guy to find a job (he is almost stop drink).
And trained how to do 5 one-arm pull ups XD

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Russian language & culture, math, programming, and how to fail your startups multiple times in a row="( Kinda useless skills but anyway

What I Can Share with Hosts

I think the best thing I can do - it's share my time with a host.
and of course, I'll buy and share food, can help to do work for house&garden (cleaning, repairing stuff) and etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Oman, Panama, Peru, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Russian Federation, United States