I work for Oblong since August 2008. Before that, i worked for Google (from July 2007), as a software engineer.
From June 2005 to May 2007, i worked on embedded software development for the scientific payload of LISA Pathfinder, as an employee of the Catalan Institute for Space Studies. Here's a short article and here a blog entry i wrote describing our work in that project.
See my resume for my whole professional story (and some other bits).
I spend most of my spare time reading, learning about programming languages and hacking.
I was a theoretical physicist in a previous life, and wrote a Ph. D. thesis on gravitational wave detectors. I'm also an exam away from a BCS. Between 2003 and 2005, i taught courses on programming and computer networks at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, where i was part of the mobile agents research group (and collaborated in an article or two).
You can read more about my daily adventures in my blogs: programming musings, minor emacs wizardry, and physics musings (currently in hibernation). Or maybe you'd rather visit other interesting sites or browse my del.icio.us links.
Most people, including my students and friends but not my parents, call me jao, which is also my unix user name of old. It sounds, in Spanish, very close to the English word how.
In other circles, i'm also known as José Antonio Ortega Ruiz. Quite a mouthful, and rather boring. Just for the record, we Spaniards use two surnames. So, the correct English version of my official id would run along the lines of José A Ortega-Ruiz.
You can reach me at (@ jao (. pobox com)).
GPG key. Fingerprint: A247 C478 0736 A615 6BC8 DA74 8C08 1D34 D321 D881