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title: About Me
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author: Chris Hodapp
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## Shorter version
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Engineer, artist, programmer, mathematician, photographer.
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Also, freelancer for hire; find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or IRC.
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## Longer version
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I've been using computers to create things since I realized that this
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was possible. I had the good fortune to have a computer at age 6 and
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an older brother who showed me MS-DOS,
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[POV-Ray](http://www.povray.org/), NeoPaint, and BASIC. This,
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combined with video games like Doom, drove my early interest in
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graphics, 3D rendering, and programming.
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This progressed to an interest in mathematics, algorithms, and
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programming language theory. I also got a digital camera in late
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2003, and added photography to that list. Since then, I've been
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fascinated with the use of algorithms that create and transform
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images - for the sake of visualizing data, creating art, image
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processing, and computer vision. (The use of algorithms for creating
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and transforming sound also fascinated me, and I read and dabbled
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extensively here, but my utter ineptitude at music put a damper on
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this.)
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I studied electrical engineering at University of Cincinnati, and
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while there was a co-op at [Etegent](http://www.etegent.com/),
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continuing there full-time when I graduated in 2010. I did some
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interesting work there combining software development and research
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around signal processing, image processing, and computer vision.
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While at UC, I happened into some [cinci2600](https://cinci2600.org/)
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meetings and eventually became a founding member of [Hive13][]. I'm
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regularly found there, and on occasion give talks.
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Around 2014 I moved to a startup, Urbanalta, and here I designed PCBs
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and wrote embedded software. This is where I started using Haskell
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more intensively on the embedded side, eventually co-creating
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[HaskellEmbedded][] and the [Ion][] library. I regularly attend
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[CincyFP](https://cincyfp.wordpress.com/) and occasionally give
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presentations, such as
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[this one](https://haskellembedded.github.io/posts/2015-06-09-atom-cincyfp-slides.html).
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I am now studying for a masters in computer science (specializing in
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machine learning) at Georgia Tech. I'm also freelancing in the area
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of electronics and embedded software, but open to other areas:
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software development, photography, rendering, computer vision,
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computational photography, machine learning.
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## Other profiles & identities of mine
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- [My résumé](../assets/resume.pdf)
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- `hodapp` on [freenode](https://freenode.net/) IRC
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- [GitHub (hodapp87)](https://github.com/hodapp87)
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- [Flickr (hodapple)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/hodapple/)
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- [Twitter (\@hodapp87)](https://twitter.com/Hodapp87)
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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hodapp-0440959?trk=hp-identity-photo)
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- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/hodappcm)
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- [HaskellEmbedded][], a site I co-founded and contribute to
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[HaskellEmbedded]: https://haskellembedded.github.io/
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[Ion]: https://haskellembedded.github.io/
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[Hive13]: http://hive13.org/
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