About Us
We’re a group of passionate people with a lot of experience in diverse backgrounds, joined together to create a unique environment which is much better than the sum of its parts. An environment where the open exchange of ideas is encouraged and thinking out of the box is expected. We like to think of Insophia more as a group, than a company.
All our work is the result of the team, consisting of well-qualified, highly proficient people.
Pablo Hoffman
Pablo Hoffman, director, CTO and co-founder of Insophia, is a senior IT manager with 8 years of experience developing IT solutions based on open source software, including both software development and system administration. His areas of expertise are: Linux system administration, Internet software development (including web and client/server applications) and Internet core protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, and is an advanced student in Computer Science engineering. More information is available online on his resume.
Jimmy Baikovicius
Jimmy Baikovicius, director, CEO and co-founder of Insophia, is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. His areas of academic expertise are robotics and applied mathematics in the field of stochastic complexity. Since 1993 is the CEO of Ikatu, an audio/video, control and integration retail company that since 2003 has engaged in consulting engineering services in the area of new technologies for multi-dwelling units. Since 1998 is the CEO of Bang & Olufsen Latin America.
Daniel Graña
Daniel Graña, developer and system administrator at Insophia, is an advanced student in Electrical Engineering with 5 years of experience integrating open source solutions for Electrical and automation companies. He has developed customized Voice Over IP solutions for small and medium enterprises, based on the Sipura SPA-3000 device. His areas of expertise include software development for embedded systems, industrial protocols, and low-power/low-cost technologies. He has also worked on reverse engineering propietary databases to expose its information through web services and other open protocols.
Matías Aguirre
Matías Aguirre, developer at Insophia, is an advanced student in Software Engineering and an open source enthusiast. He has worked in several development areas such as home automation, network communication, embedded systems and medium enterprise intranet CMS. He has also worked with industrial protocols, including the reverse engineering of some propietary ones. Has also gave talks about UML in the last Debian Day celebration conference, in Uruguay. He is also assistant professor at ORT, on the course “Low level programming on Linux”.
Damián Canabal
Damian Canabal, developer at Insophia, is a web application developer with 6 years of experience. His main interest is providing Internet with better and more interactive content. To fulfill that goal, he has specialized in state of the art web technologies, such as AJAX, which he has been using since their very beginning. In addition, he knows the additional protocol and languages required to consolidate an entire web application, such as HTTP, HTML/CSS, PHP and SQL. He has also developed web crawlers, using Python, for screen scraping purposes. He is currently finishing the SL-275 course in a local institute.
Martín Olveyra
Martin Olveyra, developer at Insophia, is an advanced student in Telecomm Engineering at ORT and a self-taught programmer using and preferring the Python programming language since 2001. He has developed enterprise management applications using Python, MySQL, Django and AJAX to ease his previous job management tasks at Universidad ORT Uruguay. Being a true open source devotee, he has worked in some free software projects such as Atlas and FreeCIV. He has also given talks on Python and Corba in the 2004 Linux celebration conferences at ORT.
Alejandro Segovia
Alejandro, visualisation programmer at Insophia, is a Computer Engineer with more than 4 years of experience in the field of Software Development, creating C, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript and C# solutions with user-friendly interfaces and powerful 2D and 3D graphics. Over the years he has acquired experience working with several state of the art visualization technologies such as Reality Server, OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph, wxWidgets, Qt, SDL and Pygame. Alejandro also works at one of the most important private universities in Uruguay as an Assistant Professor where he teaches the theory and practice of Computer Graphics and Distributed Systems and, as an Operating System enthusiast, has experience working on Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris systems.
Ezequiel Rivero
Ezequiel Rivero, web designer at Insophia, is a self-taught designer with extensive knowledge in HTML, CSS, Javascript and other state of the art web design techniques. He has been working in several websites and freelance projects for 5 years, specializing in building clean, accesible websites with table-less layouts and compliant with the most strict W3C Standards.
And the ones who haven’t submitted their abstracts yet:
- Ismael Carnales (Django & front-end web development)
- Andrés Moreira (information retrieval & data mining)
- Deivy Armand Hugon (Sysadmin)