He is currently working for an ecological consulting company, building tools to help gather, analyze and visualize a variety of ecological data. However, Yury has always been interested in technological solutions to health problems. He has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria and published several papers on Electronic Medical Records and information exchange in the healthcare domain. During his work at UVic, he participated in developing a middleware solution for data and service interchange between medical information systems.