starikov.io

Hello👋 My name is Illya Starikov, and these are my personal projects. Feel free to use freely!

• Resume
• .dotfiles
• Colosseum
• Academia

📄 resume

All the reasons why you should or shouldn’t hire me.

• Résumé [Dark]
• Curriculum Vitae [Dark]
• Source [README]

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🟢 dotfiles

I use Vim btw.

Personal development environment configuration with enterprise-level testing. Features Neovim (80+ plugins with lazy.nvim), Zsh with Zinit, and a dynamic theme system supporting 4 TokyoNight variants across Alacritty, tmux, Neovim, WezTerm, and Starship.

Highlights:

• Testing 4-level test infrastructure (unit, functional, integration, performance) with 40+ test files
• fixy Universal code formatter with priority-based formatter selection
• Theme Switching Atomic theme changes across all terminal applications

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🏟 colosseum

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED, code judge?

Competitive programming code throughout time. Programming languages may vary. Methodology to solve might be questionable (we all experiment in college).

• Cracking The Coding Interview
• Hacker Rank
• Kattis
• Leetcode

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🎓 academia

Pain is temporary, GPA is forever.

A complete archive of four years of computer science education at Missouri S&T (2014-2018), culminating in a combined BS/MS in Computer Science. Consolidated from 24+ separate course repositories with preserved commit history.

Highlighted Projects:

• Chess AI Bitboard-based engine with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening
• Puzzle Solvers A* search implementations with custom heuristics
• Linear Algebra Library Templated C++ with LU/QR/Cholesky decomposition
• Space Invaders on 8051 Classic arcade game in assembly with extreme memory constraints
• Splatoonio Multiplayer mobile game (Flutter/Dart) capstone project
• Documentation 815 pages of LaTeX, curated work, assignments, and lecture notes.