Introduction
I am a software engineer at Allston Trading in Chicago, IL and I recently graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Computer Science. My main areas of interest are concurrency and distributed systems in all levels from operating systems and programming languages to web applications.
Projects
- Mokato: Web developer services like Technorati pinger and pastebin written with Erlang and Django.
- ccBanshee: Add Creative Commons license verification to Banshee music player; creator.
- cc-sharp: C# library to verify Creative Commons license metadata; creator.
- iPodLinux: Open source community to put Linux on the Apple iPod; website designer/maintainer.
- Purdue Linux Users Group: President 2005 — 2006, 2007 — 2008; Secretary 2006 — 2007.
- Association for Computing Machinery: Secretary 2007 — 2008.
- ACM SIG Open Solaris: Secretary 2007 — 2008.
Interests
- Music: Play guitar and piano as well as recording on Linux.
- Art: Oil painting, photography, ink drawings.
- Linux: Exploring kernel and distribution design.
- Programming: PPC Assembly, C, C++, C#, Java, Erlang, Bash Script, Python, HTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS, XML, and XHTML Strict.
- Frameworks: Django, .NET, Mono.
- International Travel: I have visited the United States, Canada, Italy, Vatican City, Japan, Guam, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Argentina, and Uruguay
- Rowing & Biking
© 2008 Luke Hoersten.