rg3's Profile

Bio

Hello, World! My name is Ricardo García and I'm a software engineer born in December 1982.

Work

While I started coding long ago, since the start of 2008 I've been developing applications professionally for Unix platforms, mainly in C++ and plain old C. I'm currently a leading and proud member of the Surveillance subsystem team working on SACTA for Indra Software Labs in Gijón.

SACTA is a complete solution for air traffic management and has been deployed in most Spanish air traffic management dependencies. The Surveillance subsystem's job is to acquire radar, multilateration and ADS-B station data and perform all the needed radar tracking functions to form system tracks representing aircrafts, which can be displayed to air traffic controllers. This includes trajectory prediction/smoothing and other interesting things my mother does not understand or cares about. :)

The core of the product is written in Ada and C++.

Personal

Other personal interests of mine are free and open source software in general, Linux in particular, videogames, watching good TV shows, going to the movies with my wife, playing golf and fighting with crocodiles barehanded. Just kidding, I don't actually play golf and my favourite reptiles are pythons.

You can follow me on Twitter, read my blog at Wordpress or take a look at my projects on Github. If you want to contact me, just mail eman.3gr@cilbup. Have fun!