Anna S. Filatova: Technical writer and editor.
Well, it’s hard to speak about myself, but I will try :) I am a co-founder of Xbit labs and responsible for the overall Editoral direction and administration of the site as well as for making the male part of the team work :) I live in Los Angeles, California but I spend a lot of time traveling around the world. I graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University, Applied Linguistics department (not very computer related, eh?) Although it may sound not very clear, it is still very simple: I was doing foreign languages and language theory. Thanks to this university I can now fluently speak English, German and French, and look forward to learning some Chinese one-day :) And what about computers, you ask? This is the most interesting part, as it has always been my hobby. I was very much in programming on Turbo Pascal, Basic, Delphi and a bit of Assembler. As for other hobbies, well, there is something interesting I suppose. I am a big fan of paintball, ride a motorcycle, and am absolutely in love with snow-mobiling and heli skiing.
I am happily married and raising a little son named Nikita :)

Ilya Gavrichenkov: Hardware Editor – Platforms.
A co-founder of X-bit labs site. Ilya is the No. 1 person in our test laboratory. Being responsible for the coordination of the entire test lab activity, he is also a true expert in the CPU and Mainboard field. He is a degreed engineer, graduated with honours from the Moscow State Aviation Institute (University of Aerospace Technology), Applied Mathematics department. He has always been very serious and at the same time very enthusiastic. With his almost 30 years, Ilya is fond of sleeping until 5p.m.: night is the right time for him, as he says. And even though he is a 100% Russian he simply hates winter time: you can never get him to go for a walk in winter. I think he would really love to live in the Caribbean, for instance :)

Anton Shilov: News Editor, Entertainment Hardware Testing Lab Manager.
I am proud to say that he is one of the most experienced news-editors and market analysts among the technology Internet media. Following all the world’s events and being not afraid to carry out some in-depth investigations on his own, Anton is always right in time with his findings and analysis. He is also in charge of our entertainment hardware lab in Tallinn, Estonia, and is always full of new ideas and testing approaches that result into unique indepth materials you can find in X-bit's Video section. Anton lives in Tallinn and studies at the Audentes university, Information and Technology department. As for hobbies, he is so much into IT, media, electronic music and art that even his hobbies are all here: he rarely leaves his home without his camera, smartphone and a book or news-paper.

Nikita Nikolaichev: Hardware Editor - Storage Products and Peripherals.
He deserves being called the best storage specialist in Russia. Very experienced, which you can see yourself if you take a look at any review in our Storage section. He is a degreed engineer. He graduated from Moscow State Aviation Institute (University of Aerospace Technology), Robotics and Intelligent Systems department. They were developing specific parts for military defense systems. But then Nikita aka niknik decided to get a more peaceful job and sat down to computer hardware testing. This is how we got him :) Besides hardware, Nikita is a dedicated traveler. He is a big fan of boating down the rivers of Siberia and northern Russia. Risky but very thrilling hobby :)

Alexander Britvin: Hardware Editor - Mobile Solutions.
After finishing physical-math1ematical school of the Moscow State Aviation Institute (University of Aerospace Technology), Alexander started studying radio technology at the Bauman’s Moscow State Technical University. He continued his education at the Moscow State Technical University of Communications and Informatics and today he is full-time member of the X-bit Labs editorial team. He is in charge of mobile platform reviews and gets his hands on dozens of notebooks on a regular basis. Like almost everyone on our team, he's got to have some crazy hobby. And he does: he is fond of sky-diving!