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Driven. Curious. Creative.  \nFrom hardware to prompts, from chaos to clarity. \n\n---\n\n## 🧩 What’s inside this repo\n\nThis portfolio contains selected examples from my work in:\n\n- **L1–L2 technical support** (Avito, Joom, Zvuk B2B, etc.)\n- **CI/Monitoring tasks** (Grafana, Jenkins, Graylog, webhooks)\n- **QA \u0026 testing** (manual, smoke/regression, test cases)\n- **LLM prompt design** (Wikibot system prompts, few-shot logic)\n- **Documentation** (internal knowledge bases, Confluence)\n\n---\n\n## 🛠️ Stack \u0026 Tools\n\n| Domain | Tools |\n|--------|-------|\n| Monitoring \u0026 Logs | Grafana, Graylog, OnCall |\n| Automation | Jenkins, Gitlab, webhooks |\n| QA | Jira, test-cases, bugtracking |\n| Docs | Confluence, Markdown |\n| Tech Support | UseDesk, RDP, SSH, REST API |\n| OS | Windows, Ubuntu, macOS |\n| Languages | Python (basic), SQL, Bash |\n| Prompting | LLMs (GPT-based), few-shot, system-level |\n\n---\n\n## 🧠 About me\n\n- 💻 5 years in tech support (B2C → B2B → edge devices)\n- 🔁 Cross-functional: worked with DevOps, QA, playback, hardware\n- 📊 Proactive: traced incidents, helped to build monitoring, optimized workflows\n- 🧪 Curious: learned QA by testing edge devices hands-on\n- 🤖 Explored LLM prompting before it was cool.\n\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003e me return manifesto \u003c/summary\u003e  \n  \n\u003e me return 422 when no one knows what the bug is   \n\u003e me return 504 when devs ghost me   \n\u003e me return 418 when asked to write a press release  \n\n  \n\u003c/details\u003e\n\n---\n\n## 🐾 Fun facts\n\nI also:\n- play League of Legends (10k hours as adc main, MT peak - easter egg in the end of README)\n- using urbex as my cardio\n- write postpunk music and raise three cats.\n\n---\n\n## 📫 Let’s connect\n\nFeel free to message me:  \n📧 icymirum@gmail.com   \n💬 [Telegram](https://t.me/hey_lark)  \n🟢 [WhatsApp](https://wa.me/79118145193)    \n🐙 [GitHub](https://github.com/dontkaiad)   \n📍 St. Petersburg, open to relocation (PL, RS, MNE pref.)  \n\n---\n\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003e 🕹️ Easter Egg: Champion Spotlight — Kai, the Neurodivergent Engineer \u003c/summary\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n**Role:** Marksman / Support Hybrid  \n**Resource:** Focus (instead of Mana)  \n**Damage Type:** Mental / True  \n**Scaling:** Knowledge + Concentration  \n**Origin:** Tech Support Depths  \n**Patch:** Pre-PromptOps\n\n---\n\n### 🧬 Passive — *Overfocus*\n\nKai accumulates Focus while listening to russian post-punk playlists and deep-diving into chaotic systems, log clusters, or half-written specs.\nFocus builds faster when the task is obscure, undocumented, or happening under pressure.\nOnce Focus reaches 100%, her next ability is Overloaded, granting enhanced insight or performance.\n\n*⚠️ Staying in Overfocus mode too long triggers Mental Overload — abilities are weakened and Kai becomes distracted, muttering about dashboard inconsistencies.*\n\nTo reset Overload, Kai must briefly switch context (e.g., take a short offline break, look out the window, touch grass, or reheat coffee).\nThis clears the stack and restores baseline clarity.\n\n**Bonus:**\nIf Kai opens a can of Monster Energy™ during work — Focus gain is doubled for 10 minutes.\n\n---\n\n### 💡 Q — *Pattern Lock*\n\nKai highlights invisible structures within chaos: API chains, failing workflows, undocumented triggers.  \nPerfect for log diving, error tracing, or identifying mismatched assumptions in client complaints.\n\n**Bonus:**\nHolding Monster increases speed of activation.\n\n*• Enhanced: auto-links incidents to root cause and suggests Confluence anchor.*\n\n---\n\n### 🧪 W — *Debug Dance*\n\nExecutes manual probing across systems using smoke tests, user scenarios, and synthetic prompts.  \nEach cast increases attention and speeds up bug hypothesis formation.\n\n*• Stackable. At 3 charges, enters \"Flow State\" — reducing cooldowns and increasing insight radius.*  \n*• Each consecutive cast increases chance of Overload buildup.*\n\n---\n\n### 🧠 E — *Prompt Mirage*\nA long-cooldown ability. Not spammable.\nEffective only if Kai is at moderate Focus and no context-switch occurred in last 3 minutes.\n\nSummons a well-structured prompt tailored to trick even the most stubborn LLMs.  \nApplies few-shot / zero-shot or CoT logic depending on context size.  \nEnemies hallucinate bugs. Allies call it wizardry.\n\n*• Can backfire beautifully if model isn’t aligned.*  \n*• Enhanced: doubles accuracy of bot-assisted support.*  \n*• Overloaded version: generates two alternative prompt strategies, but at risk of overthinking.*\n\n---\n\n### 🎧 R — *Reality Collapse*  (Ultimate — unlocks at 6 / 11 / 16)\n\nKai collapses surrounding ambiguity into structure.  \nDocumentation writes itself. Support workflows optimize. Focus spikes.\n\nAt:\n- **Level 6**: Analyzes unknown systems with limited data.\n- **Level 11**: Connects edge cases to high-level patterns.\n- **Level 16**: Sees the architecture behind incidents — and updates the Wiki.\n\n*• Passive bonus: musical damage over time (if headphones are on). Press ctrl5 to put headphones on.*\n\n---\n\n### 🐾 Champion quotes:\n\n\u003e \"I don’t scale. I snowball.\"  \n\u003e \"It’s not chaos — it’s undocumented structure.\"  \n\u003e \"Stacking Flow. Don’t ping.\"  \n\u003e \"One cat runs my cluster. The other manages incident tags.\"  \n\u003e \"I don’t wait for permission to carry.\"   \n\n\n\u003c/details\u003e\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdontkaiad%2Fit-journey","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdontkaiad%2Fit-journey","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdontkaiad%2Fit-journey/lists"}