Yakov Sirotkin
  Yakov Sirotkin was selected as a java champion in oct’ 2005. Yakov is the JUG leader for Sun's only "Top 50" JUG in Russia. Yakon is also a java advocate in the Russian developer community. Yakov was born on 10th May, 1977.Yakov did a diploma with honors in Mathematics & Mechanics Faculty, department of Mathematical Analysis from Saint-Petersburg State University in 1999.
Yakov started his career in 2003 as software developer for DataArt in Web applications on Java, Oracle and structs and in Quantitative Finance on C# platform. After couple of years Yakov joined interresearch. For a year there he worked on development of the internet surveys on ASP platform. In the month of June, 2006 Yakov moved at Siemens Business Services as a Web-developer.He worked there till February, 2007. Since March, 2007 Yakov working with Yadex as a software developer. Apart from these achievements Yakov worked HR manager at Spb Software House as well as coordinated the Java User Group JUG.RU.