👋 Hi, I'm @SeppoPakonen and I'm a software developer with a special interest in developing music software applications. My main area of expertise is in C++ and in non-standard U++ conventions, however, I am also comfortable with low-level system or driver C programming and assembly.

I have a deep understanding of algorithms and software engineering principles with a strong emphasis on good software design. I have a passion for software development and thrive to build programs with good solutions, like Ultimate++ and FreeBSD system.

💪 My Skills and Experience

• C++ development: Ultimate++, C++, Clang, GCC, and Visual Studio as well as MSYS2 and cygwin
• Front end development: GUI forms, minimalism style html
• Software engineering principles: RAII, OOP, Design Patterns, SOLID, UML diagrams
• Build systems: UMake, Unix Makefiles, CMake, MSBuild, Gradle, Maven
• Debugging: GDB, Valgrind, WinDbg, Visual Studio
• Optimizing: SIMD, Parallelism and Multithreading
• Version control: git, subversion

🎼 My Music Experience

• Music software consumer: Steinberg Cubase, TuxGuitar, Guitar Pro, Music Theory
• Audio production: music compositions, lyrics, production, mixing and mastering
• Music software development: VST plugins
• Songwriting: Rap, Pop, rock, metal, and orchestral composition
• Music industry experience: Track streaming, publishing, and live performance

🖥 My PC Experience

• Operating systems: Windows -94, Linux -02, FreeBSD -12
• Gaming: DOS games, Amiga 500 games, and popular shooters (wolfenstein 3D, doom, duke nukem 3D, CS 1.x, SoF2, sauerbraten, nexuiz, xonotic, rexuiz)
• Networking & file sharing: Ftp, Napster, Winamp, KaZaa, Torrent, DC++, Audioz, archive.org, open source

🙌 My Personal Interests

• Open source software development: Ultimate++
• Artificial intelligence and neural networks: ConvNetCpp
• Information seeking: StumbleUpon (2002-2018)
• Old computers and systems: Amiga 500 (since 7 years old)
• FPS shooters: sauerbraten, rexuiz, xonotic (nickname: poko)