Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Formally I have a background in Computer Science and Mathematics (and to a lesser extent Chemistry and Physics) and professionally I am a Director of Engineering, although I have also been a Principal Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and System Architect.
Most of the work I do nowadays is under NDA, but I've done a lot of work in the fields of online advertising creating or enhancing the technology for ad networks (i.e., computational advertising), Internet TV, and online gaming creating everything from social games to licensed games that have to meet stringent legal requirements.
From a technical point of view, some of these projects involved developing "weak" artificial intelligence systems. I do however have an interest in "strong" artificial intelligence (i.e., artificial general intelligence).
Most of the work I do tends to be implemented using the LAMP platform -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP -- since the Web has become the ubiquitous frontend platform. (Of course that means I have to touch HTML, JavaScript, and CSS too.) Although some projects have called for usage of C, Java, C#, and even assembly language, from time to time.
I also have an amateur background in genetics, psychology, neuroscience, and economics. In particular, I focus on human genetics, moral psychology, evolutionary psychology, computational neuroscience, austrian economics, and behavioral economics.
I have been involved with developing open source software since 1996. SkinnyMVC is the latest project. Although I've been involved with others; for example long ago I used to be involved with Mono. I also sometimes get involved with the development of open specifications; one result of this is that I have a contributor credit on the offical HTML5 specification.
I co-founded a Software Engineering firm with a long time friend, colleague, and co-worker of mine, Radoslav Gazo. Our office is in downtown Vancouver. (Contact us here.)
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