User:Castarco

A: An introduction

I'm a student of Informatics Engineering degree in the `Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya` university. Many years ago I started a double degree on mathematics and computer science, but I've paused it to start working on the web development industry, then I specialized on software architecture and after that, on machine learning. Now I'm "finishing" my studies.

I want to participate in the SOCIS because I like programming open source software, but usually I can't devote enough time because all my previous jobs were on privative software. Almost all my open source code is inside toy projects because the remaining time I have isn't enough to make serious contributions. Additionally, I'm studying robotics and computer vision, and my teachers are fanatics of Matlab. I don't like depending on privative software for studying projects, because learning something should be economically affordable for everyone.

I always use the `castarco` nick wherever I am.
I'm the the Europe/Madrid timezone (UTC+2). I'll live in Barcelona this summer. In summer time I like to code from 08:00-14:00 and then from 15:00 to 17:00, but if I get up late for some reason, probably I'll be coding from 9:00 to 18:00 (with the same midday pause as in the usual case). If one day I haven't nothing more interesting to do, then probably I'll work more hours on the project.

* I have experience with C, C++11

TODO , incomplete application.

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