// welcome to my garden
Alexander Kurochkin
full-stack· gamedev· ML & robotics· self-hosting
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spring About me
I'm Alexander Kurochkin, a 4th-year CS student who builds things end to end: from drone firmware and game engines to microservice backends and the servers they run on.
By day I work on enterprise DNS filtering at 7bits: Java/Kotlin microservices, React portals — and everything around them is self-hosted. My current focus is reinforcement learning for drone control: my bachelor thesis trains flight policies in NVIDIA Isaac Lab and moves them onto real hardware.
This site is a garden of things I grow: serious engineering, silly experiments, and everything in between.
since ~ age 8
The beginning
First lines of code just for fun — the passion started long before the industry skills.
2022 -> now
University — CS bachelor
4th year. Thesis: reinforcement learning for autonomous UAV control (defense, June 2027). Since the 1st year — 7bits IT Lift: mostly self-driven practice in Java, Spring, React.
2025 -> now
7bits
Enterprise DNS filtering: Java/Kotlin microservices, Vert.x resolver, React portals — backend hotfixes and frontend fixes.
2024 -> now
Own studio
A small studio of my own with two teammates: full-stack products and fully self-hosted infrastructure.
now
SwarmOS — bachelor thesis
RL for drone swarms: Isaac Lab, sim-to-real on ESP32, real micro-drones and an operator glove.
Python
C++
TypeScript
C# / .NET
Java / Kotlin
Rust
Go
Unity
React / Vite
FastAPI
Spring Cloud
Vert.x
Isaac Lab
Vulkan / OpenGL
ESP32 / FreeRTOS
Docker
Kafka
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
Ansible
nginx