Hi, I'm Yuriy! I am trained as an architect turned coder, currently leading R&D of computational design and automation systems for a national engineering firm. When not building digital tools, I prefer more analog forms of creative expression through designing and building interior objects, photography, mixology, and researching cocktails and the history of drinks.
I bartended years ago, but the craft stayed with me. Now the same systems thinking that shapes digital tools and architectural workflows goes into developing cocktail recipes and constructing their visual identity. My professional and personal projects both follow the same logic of making beautiful, curious, and useful things. A Date with a Drink is my self-produced body of work � studying and testing classic recipes, obsessively refining original ones, styling and photographing every image, and designing every page. I wrote it as a home bartender for likeminded fellow enthusiasts, built around the belief that great cocktails should be approachable, memorable, and not only enjoyed but understood.