Alice Boars / Алиса Кабанова, 19 years of age, Russia, Unemployed

• Core skills
• Research
• Work experience
• F[L]OSS contributions

Hello, and здравствуйте! On top of what I already said on the homepage of this website and in the application, I’m going to go in details now about my experience, contributions, portfolio, history and skills.

Core skills

Generally, my skills can be branched into a few different branches/categories, from which a graph or a tree can be formed:

• Technology
  • Software development
    • C, beginner.
    • C++, beginner. Have only basic experience with the STL, and no alternative STL experiences.
    • Zola SSG, beginner. This CV (and website) are written in it.
    • Rust, intermediate.
    • Svelte 3, intermediate.
    • Podman / OCI / Containers / Linux Namespaces, intermediate-advanced.
    • Java, advanced. Quite familiar with bytecode and internals of the VM.
  • Software packaging
    • pyinstaller, beginner.
    • RPM, beginner-intermediate.
  • Malware analysis / Reverse engineering
    • Native, beginner.
    • Generic managed languages (C# after AoT/GoLang with runtime), intermediate.
    • Interpreted languages (JS/Python) in source form, intermediate.
    • Java bytecode, advanced.
• Art
  • Content creation / VFX / Graphing
    • Audacity, beginner.
    • Matplotlib, beginner.
    • Adobe Photoshop, intermediate.
    • Adobe After Effects, intermediate.
    • Adobe Premiere, intermediate.

Additionally, I’m a C1 English speaker, and a Native Russian speaker. I’m interested in doing activist work, if possible.

Research

I have some (unpublished and extremely rushed) write-ups on malware analysis; contact me directly for them. I do not feel comfortable publishing them for the sake of my own safety.

Work experience

• July 2025 - October 2025

  A fortunate situation has landed onto me, and I got into an undisclosed Minecraft server development team. My responsibilities included:

  • Maintaining the uptime, stability and performance under all the instances;
  • Refactoring existing code.

  The accomplishments that I’m most proud of are:

  • Developing a custom binary format to profile memory usage, alongside a recorder and a renderer for it, using it afterwards to fix our critical performance issues;
  • Cleaning up the code and making contractor software work in our codebase and directly integrating it to the main source tree.

  In the meantime before starting that position, I was contributing to FOSS and working on my own projects, some of which can be seen in a section below.

• May 2025

  At this time, I was contracting at a local corporation as a minimum wage employee. No further details will be given for the sake of my privacy.

• December 2024 - January 2025

  As part of my time moderating the Centre T’s Discord server, I contributed together with one other staff member on 2 generations of the moderation bots:

  The first one was developed in Kotlin, using Kord, Ktor and Exposed. The second one was rewritten in Rust with the help of SQLx and Serenity, but I was only around for a bit on both of them.

• October 2024 - January 2025

  This was my first proper time working with the skills described above that I am confident sharing: I was doing some basic video editing and thumbnail work at the time for a person working with Junebug and Hamy.

  Proof of having source files for some of the works published by them at the time can be provided at request of a potential employer.

F[L]OSS contributions

In the times that I had no work, or work that couldn’t be disclosed / is not important to my skillset, I have worked on various Free (and Libre) Open Source Software projects. Those projects include

• nocensor: A personal COPR RPM repository that packaged Zapret, and was going to package some other software, until it was abandoned in favour of contributing to Terra open-source package repository by Fyra Labs.
• terra: This is where I have contributed Zapret to, and where I have tried to contribute AMDVLK to, before it got abandoned. As part of packaging AMDVLK, I have packaged DirectXShaderCompiler for it.
• stellarite: During the time that this image was broken, I have contributed a fix for it.
• amenity: This is a personal project of mine, distributing a modified image of an RHEL clone for use on my VPSes.
• gtk-dev-containers: This is an abandoned project of mine that makes it easier to use GTK with development containers. Self-explanatory.