He is the author of a multitude of open-source projects for Haskell, including ["stm-containers"](http://nikita-volkov.github.io/stm-containers/), ["record"](http://nikita-volkov.github.io/record/) and [the "hasql" library](https://github.com/nikita-volkov/hasql), which is the subject of this talk. He is also the author of [the "SORM" project](http://sorm-framework.org), which is an ORM-library for Scala. Nikita [blogs about functional programming](http://nikita-volkov.github.io/), and is employed by a Norwegian company [Sannsyn AS](http://sannsyn.com/), which provides a recommendation engine as a service as well as the general consulting services in IT.