Hai! I'm Sophie (she/her). You may also know me as n3tcat.
When I speak at conferences, I normally give a bio along the lines of:
Sophie is a catgirl hacker based in NYC. She can often be found sticking Nix where it doesn't belong, programming on the subway, or bending transistors to her sheer will. She fiddles with all levels of the stack, from writing Ruby on Rails code (professionally, and for fun) to developing her own custom hardware and firmware.
To give a bit more detail, I am a software engineer (by passion and by profession), and spend a lot of my free time doing low level stuff. Right now this includes a lot of custom-designed hardware running embedded Rust code.
I don't have an electrical engineering degree, but I have enough experience at this point that I consider myself to be a decent electrical engineer. I'm a US extra ham, which I got shortly after moving to the US, and a Canadian advanced, which I got the day after I turned 16. (There is no age limit in Canada; this is purely a coincidence).
You can find many of my projects documented on this website or on my Git forge.
I currently live in New York City in the United States, although I'm Canadian and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I also spent 7 years living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which is also where I went to university.
I AM A PROUD NIXOS AND EMACS USER!!!!!!!!!!! As I've written about, my Nix config is intimate, but if I like you, maybe I'll let you take a peek :3