[BioRuby] My proper GSoC introduction

[Marjan Povolni]

Hello once again,

My name is Marjan Povolni, I'm 27 years old and currently wrapping up my
Masters in CS. My dissertation project will be done in a weeks time, but
due to some bureaucracy requirements I won't be graduating until April. I
saw that the requirement for GSoC is to be enrolled in an academic
institution on April 23rd, so that fits me well.

I also have some 5 years of professional experience working for a local
outsourcing company, working with lots of technologies. If someone's
interested in details, you can take a look at my LinkedIn page:
http://rs.linkedin.com/in/mpovolni. I'm very curious, want to learn new
stuff and get better at what I'm doing, and that seemed always to be to the
contrary of what was required of me at that company, so...

...currently I'm switching to freelancing as a Rails developer and have an
offer to be a TA and a Ph.D. student at the University of Novi Sad, at the
systems lab, but that's starting in October. They're mainly doing research
on operating systems, compilers and parallel programming, but as is the
case for most labs in our country (Serbia), they have no funded projects,
so I will be pretty much free to choose what I'm going to work on.
Currently I'm looking into specializing in CUDA/OpenCL, and parallel
algorithms and their use in bioinformatics.

Those are my plans, a GSoC project would be of great help to me, but even
if it doesn't work out, I'm still determined to continue with them ;)

Best regards,
Marjan