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title: About Me
author: Chris Hodapp
---

## Shorter version

Engineer, artist, programmer, mathematician, photographer.

Also, freelancer for hire; find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or IRC.

## Longer version

I've been using computers to create things since I realized that this
was possible.  I had the good fortune to have a computer at age 6 and
an older brother who showed me MS-DOS,
[POV-Ray](http://www.povray.org/), NeoPaint, and BASIC.  This,
combined with video games like Doom, drove my early interest in
graphics, 3D rendering, and programming.

This progressed to an interest in mathematics, algorithms, and
programming language theory.  I also got a digital camera in late
2003, and added photography to that list.  Since then, I've been
fascinated with the use of algorithms that create and transform
images - for the sake of visualizing data, creating art, image
processing, and computer vision.  (The use of algorithms for creating
and transforming sound also fascinated me, and I read and dabbled
extensively here, but my utter ineptitude at music put a damper on
this.)

I studied electrical engineering at University of Cincinnati, and
while there was a co-op at [Etegent](http://www.etegent.com/),
continuing there full-time when I graduated in 2010.  I did some
interesting work there combining software development and research
around signal processing, image processing, and computer vision.

While at UC, I happened into some [cinci2600](https://cinci2600.org/)
meetings and eventually became a founding member of [Hive13][].  I'm
regularly found there, and on occasion give talks.

Around 2014 I moved to a startup, Urbanalta, and here I designed PCBs
and wrote embedded software.  This is where I started using Haskell
more intensively on the embedded side, eventually co-creating
[HaskellEmbedded][] and the [Ion][] library.  I regularly attend
[CincyFP](https://cincyfp.wordpress.com/) and occasionally give
presentations, such as
[this one](https://haskellembedded.github.io/posts/2015-06-09-atom-cincyfp-slides.html).

I am now studying for a masters in computer science (specializing in
machine learning) at Georgia Tech.  I'm also freelancing in the area
of electronics and embedded software, but open to other areas:
software development, photography, rendering, computer vision,
computational photography, machine learning.

## Other profiles & identities of mine

- [My résumé](../assets/resume.pdf)
- `hodapp` on [freenode](https://freenode.net/) IRC
- [GitHub (hodapp87)](https://github.com/hodapp87)
- [Flickr (hodapple)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/hodapple/)
- [Twitter (\@hodapp87)](https://twitter.com/Hodapp87)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hodapp-0440959?trk=hp-identity-photo)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/hodappcm)
- [HaskellEmbedded][], a site I co-founded and contribute to

[HaskellEmbedded]: https://haskellembedded.github.io/
[Ion]: https://haskellembedded.github.io/
[Hive13]: http://hive13.org/
