jimmysoda/jimmysoda.github.io

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jimmysoda is Jaime Soto

I write software for fun and for a living. I hope you find something useful in my GitHub repositories.

Experience

My primary software development language has been C++ and I also have some professional experience with Java and C. I've dabbled with Matlab during my graduate coursework on image processing and computer vision and with Python on simple utility scripts for work and on personal projects.

I am the founder of Simverge, a small software development business in the Orlando area that focuses on synthetic environment creation and reasoning for simulations and games.

I previously worked at ARA for eleven years, where I started as a junior software engineer and climbed the ranks to a senior software engineer. I was a member of Virtual Heroes division on my last few years at ARA. I worked mostly on creating tools for creating simulation and gaming terrains from GIS data such as elevation rasters, satellite images, and vector features (e.g., road lines, building footprints, tree points, etc).

I hold a Modeling and Simulation master's degree under the Computer Visualization focus area and a Computer Engineering bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida. I also attended Valencia College for my pre-major associate's degree.

Projects on GitHub

• facedetector [Matlab/Octave] — Principal component analysis (PCA) face recognition and detection
• howto-protobuf-zlib [C++] — Examples for Protobuf message serialization with zlib compression
• imgrectifier [Matlab/Octave] — A collection of functions for affine and metric rectification of images
• wikiquote-tweet-awslambda [Python] — An AWS Lambda to tweet a random quote from wikiquote.org

Why jimmysoda?

The name arose from an unintended broken telephone effect during my days as a community college student. I participated in an event that required me to write my name on a roster and be called later. Note that my first name is roughly pronounced as HI-meh in Spanish, and I understand that it may be mistaken for the English name Jamie and pronounced as JAY-mee. It seems that my name was read aloud and rewritten, because I was called Jimmy Soda as written on a new roster. I embraced this new name with enthusiasm.