Kirill Makovski
@devilandcode
From electrician to PHP dev at 34, now a Master’s student in Computer Engineering researching AI for eye health. Tweets on career change, learning late🚀
Thinking back to those days — I can only imagine how much easier my life would’ve been if today’s AI tools existed back then. If I wasn’t standing on a construction site at a morning briefing, I was buried in tender platforms: requesting project docs, calculating estimates,
Got a bit sidetracked — back to the story. So there I was: a businessman, my company wrapping up a major contract. And that’s when I met the brutal rules of the construction game. Final payment? Slashed by 50%. They used “adjustment coefficients” — didn’t remove work, just cut
Side note for anyone thinking about switching careers: PHP is still one of the best languages to start with. Easy to pick up, practical from day one, and perfect for people coming from any profession. My own story is proof — it was the first language that opened the door
Hello from real winter ❄️ Snow everywhere, freezing air, heavy jackets — the full package. Hope everyone’s staying warm out there. I’m already counting the days till summer… got a half‑marathon (21 km) waiting for me. Winter slows you down. Summer reminds you what
Continuing the story. And just like that, I became a businessman. Launching my electrical company felt like stepping out of a burning building into cold night air — a shock, but a relief. For the first time in a long while, I felt reset. Motivation came back. Home stopped
Winter exams are done — back to the story. My reckless phase didn’t just catch up to me — it ran me over. The wins vanished first. Then the money. Then the version of myself I still respected. Home stopped feeling like home. Every argument felt like a scene I’d watched a
Tomorrow I have my last winter exam — philosophy. Last time I studied philosophy was 15+ years ago. Wish me luck — then it’s full focus on my Master’s thesis: U‑Net for ophthalmic image segmentation. 🙏📚
Small break from the story. I’m in the middle of my Master’s exams right now — and today I passed “Neural Networks for Media Data Processing.” Crazy to think how far this path has taken me already.
But I had no idea that moment would flip my whole life. I thought I’d found a shortcut — fast crypto money, easy wins, a way out. Instead, it pulled me into a spiral: reckless spending, nights blurred by alcohol, the rush of gambling that felt like control but wasn’t. I didn’t
After years as an electrician on power plants — travel, harsh conditions, mental burnout — I tried crypto trading. A dev built me a trading bot, then vanished, leaving the code. I had to tweak it myself. Opening that code was the first time I touched programming. That moment
At 34, I was an electrician. Zero coding. No degree. Just YouTube at midnight after a 10-hour shift. Taught myself PHP, got a dev job, hit mid-level. Now at 37: doing a Master’s in CE, researching AI for eye‑disease detection. The truth nobody tells about career change:
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