I'm pano-photographer from Moscow, Russia. Panoramas is just a hobby for me. In my real life I work in some Russia software company in banking sphere. But it's very boring :( Traveling and panoraming are much more fun things =) For every trip I take my tripod and camera and I try to make panos of every beautyful places that I met.
Currently I use entry-level equipment: Canon 550D with Samyang 8mm lens and panohead Nodal Ninja 3. Some panos had been made with kit lens Canon EF-S 18-135mm, so I had to made a lot of shots for these panos :)