Hello

Hello, my name is Vesko, and I am a mosaic of experiences.

To imagine me, think of a hacker, a journalist, an entrepreneur, a dreamer, a challenger, an adventurer, a designer of experiences and a puzzles nut.

After 5 years in Chicago, two winters in Washington D.C. @PostGraphics, an autumn in Singapore @NUSingapore and a childhood in Bulgaria, I am presently based in Scotland, which has become a home, filled with the necessary secrets to propel the curiosity of an engineer and inspire the craft of an artist.

I try to make sense of the world with letters and numbers. I look for simplicity. I insist on beauty. I believe in emotions. I think they are part of the key to bring positive change to society.

I grew up a happy kid in a coastal city. The shores of the Black Sea, Burgas and Bulgaria are a home. It is a home of loving parents who cultured my two sisters and myself to be strong individuals, opposites of different shapes that click like a jigsaw puzzle.

The pressure-cooker of an American college @NorthwesternU tested me in ways I did not see coming. It gave me a glimpse to what it means to loose yourself to find yourself.

Programming gives me freedom @GitHub, a way to capture purpose concisely, and define certainty in an uncertain world. Writing and photography @Flickr give me an excuse to talk to strangers, ask questions and know places and minds which ordinarily one would not access.

I swim, run, play tennis @meadows_tennis_ and occasionally dance. In my teen years, I made two documentaries #CloudsFlyWest, which won a few awards. I continue to cherish a good movie, a thought-provoking conversation, The @NewYorker and @NatGeoMag.

As I pursue the courage to be myself, I am getting reacquainted with my storytelling roots and returning to a few entrepreneurial ideas which I have dreamed for close to a decade.

If the past is any predictor for the future, I will take the road less traveled. Maybe see you there. If you see me, give me a high-five, a fist-bump or a chest-thump.

Yours,

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October 2018

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