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title: About Me
author: Chris Hodapp
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*Short version:* Engineer, artist, programmer, mathematician,
photographer.  Also: Comp Sci masters student at Georgia Tech, and
freelancer for hire.

*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 taught me to use MS-DOS,
and showed me [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 am
now studying for a masters in computer science (specializing in
machine learning) at Georgia Tech.  Right now, I'm freelancing in the
area of electronics and embedded software, but open to other areas:
software development, photography, rendering, computer vision,
computational photography, machine learning.

Here are some links to other profiles of mine:

- [My résumé](../assets/resume.pdf)
- [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](https://haskellembedded.github.io/), a site I
  co-founded and contribute to