Hello, I’m Serhii

I design and build apps for Apple platforms, automate my house a bit too much, and live on a tropical island questioning all my life choices in a very structured, Swift-like manner.

I was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine, back when floppy disks were still a thing and “saving your progress” meant both in games and in life.

I spent about 30 years in Kyiv:

• Learned to love tech, computers, and all things that can be taken apart and sometimes even assembled back.
• Developed a long-term relationship with logic, science, and asking “but why exactly?” about everything.
• Survived enough winters to confidently say: I’ve done my time.

Kyiv is still “home” in the deep-brain firmware kind of way, even if my IP address strongly disagrees.

For the last 11 years and 9 days (yes, I did the math), I’ve been living on Koh Phangan, Thailand — a tropical island famous for:

• beaches,
• parties,
• and people who said “I’ll stay for a month” and forgot to leave.

I am one of those people.

These days I live somewhere between jungle, sea, and Wi-Fi coverage, sharing the place with:

• a very opinionated Siamese cat,
• a sugar glider with parkour ambitions,
• and fish who rent a huge outdoor bowl in exchange for eating mosquito larvae.

I’m a Swift / SwiftUI developer building apps for:

• iOS
• iPadOS
• macOS (and occasionally eyeing visionOS like, “one day…”)

What I actually do:

• Architect and implement apps with a focus on:
  • clean, modern Swift,
  • SwiftUI-first UI,
  • new platform features (yes, even the beta ones),
  • and code that future-me hopefully won’t hate.
• Play with:
  • Swift 6+ features, macros, and all the shiny new toys.
  • Async stuff, structured concurrency, and polite fights with the compiler.
• Integrate:
  • AI backends,
  • APIs,
  • and whatever else someone decided “will only take a couple of hours” (it won’t).

Short version:

I turn coffee, bug reports, and design docs into SwiftUI views and questionable TODO comments.

When I’m not arguing with Xcode, I:

• Photograph and film life on the island
  Parties, lights, people, random details — then spend an unreasonable amount of time syncing it perfectly to music in video edits.

• Over-engineer my smart home
  Home Assistant, sensors, dashboards, cameras, automations — if something in the house can be automated, it probably already is or is on a YAML todo list.

• Design things that don’t exist yet
  Including:
  • UI concepts,
  • playful ideas for women’s underwear design,
  • and other “one day I’ll actually produce this” concepts.
• Dive into psychology and systems
  I enjoy picking apart:
  • human behavior,
  • motivation,
  • interactions,
  • and how all of that maps to something like a mental state machine with too many edge cases.
• Play and tinker with tech & AI
  New tools, new models, new frameworks, new ways to make my life slightly easier and my setups significantly more complicated.

A non-exhaustive list of things my brain refuses to let go of:

• Technology & computers — from low-level details to UX.
• Swift, SwiftUI & app architecture — because one framework is never enough.
• Psychology — especially how people think, decide, and get stuck.
• Physics & space — because why not also worry about cosmic scales.
• Genetics & neuroscience (as a curious outsider) — understanding how much of us is wiring vs. software.
• Electronics & gadgets — things that click, blink, and occasionally explode (metaphorically).
• Parties & music — electronic, dance, and everything that feels good at 3 AM on an island.
• Photography & videography — capturing moments, then obsessing over color grading.

Because:

• It’s slightly absurd.
• It sounds like a guy who might pick you up from a pier at 3 AM.
• It’s one of those jobs even Thai people can’t apply for.

Also, if someone ever yells “taxi boat!” on the beach, I can pretend it’s free brand activation.

You might want to:

• Talk about apps
  • Need an app for Apple platforms?
  • Want to modernize a codebase with SwiftUI?
  • Curious how to wire AI into your app without burning it down?
• Talk about automation
  • Smart home setups,
  • Home Assistant,
  • Apple/HomeKit, Matter, Thread, and Zigbee integration,
  • making your lights, sensors, and speakers behave like a tiny obedient orchestra.
• Talk about anything from the list above
  Tech, space & physics, design, AI, island life, psychology, or my favorite: “how did you end up living there for over 11 years??”.