I am an Aerospace Engineer at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies studying for my M.A.Sc. in nanosatellite technology in collaboration with the UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory. I have been using free and open-source software on the desktop since 2000, and installed my first Linux OS at the tender age of 17. I have been using Ubuntu off and on since Warty, and have been using it as my only OS since Dapper.

During a summer job at an Engineering firm in Ontario, I helped develop a web-based application for the local intranet that managed problem reports (bugs), scheduling, and other aspects of the hardware design process. An emphasis was placed on using free and open-source software and tools as well as generating standards-compliant output. This helped to spurn my growing interest in open-source.