Eldar Safin is a writer residing in Russia. At the beginning of the 21st century he was restoring facades, formatted magazines, and wrote scripts for corporate celebrations. Since 2008 he's the IT project lead at SpeechPro and is currently implementing neural network based solutions for banks and telecoms. Safin is the author of five books and 100 short stories. In the fall of 2019 he became the laureate of the "Future Time" prize, finishing in top 6 among 1200 contenders.