The author writes under a pseudonym.
A specialist in legal issues related to cybersecurity, he was born in Moscow to a Jewish family originally from Ukraine (Kharkiv region).
A programmer and lawyer, he has worked as a consultant and served as an advisor to several Russian ministers and senior liberal officials at the federal level, who were forced to leave Russia or imprisoned on the orders of Vladimir Putin's regime because of their political beliefs.
Since the early 2000s, he has divided his time between Spain and Israel.