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## About me

<span class="description">I'm a Canadian software developer, 3D artist, photographer, network operator, musician, [blogger](/blog), amateur radio operator, IPv6 nerd, drone pilot, and general maker of things. I love to experiment with little-used technologies, and specialize in *making things interconnect*.</span>

<!-- I am a first-year college student, studying Software Engineering at Sheridan College. I develop software both as a hobby, and professionally, and have been programming since I was in the 5th grade. I am also a Canadian amateur radio operator (callsign **VA3ZZA**), and the former Lead Software Developer at [Raider Robotics](https://github.com/frc5024). -->


As always, I'm working on multiple projects at the same time and have my head crammed full of technobabble. Currently, I am:

- Working on the graphics pipeline powering children's TV productions at [Industrial Brothers](https://www.industrialbrothers.com/)
- Operating [AS204466](https://bgp.tools/as/204466), a global IPv6 network.
- Contributing to the Rust library and tooling ecosystem over on [GitHub](https://github.com/ewpratten)
- Working with low-power radio communication modes


## Amateur Radio

I am a fairly active Amateur Radio operator. The following table is a reference list of my current, future, and past callsigns:

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| Callsign             |  Status  | Usage                             |
|----------------------|:--------:|-----------------------------------|
| **VA3ZZA**           | *Active* | My primary callsign               |
| **VA3UJF**           | *Active* | Testing & automated transmissions |
| [**VB3YEET**](/yeet) | *Future* | Special Event                     |
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My current license class is *Basic with Honours*, and I have been on-air since late 2020. More station information may be found at [my QRZ page](https://www.qrz.com/db/VA3ZZA).

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<td><img src="https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=VA3ZZA&amp;h=e0fa3b8ff28e81a5&amp;a=12" srcset="https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=VA3ZZA&amp;h=e0fa3b8ff28e81a5&amp&amp;hr=1&amp;a=12 2x"></td>
<td><img src="https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=VB3YEET&amp;h=43adad96f1c09138&amp;a=12" srcset="https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=VB3YEET&amp;h=43adad96f1c09138&amp;hr=1&amp;a=12 2x"></td>
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## Music

I make music too! Nearly all electronic; a mix of samplers, raw sound design from oscillators, and everything in-between. The following are my three most recent releases:

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    <!-- <h3>Space & Time, Vol. 1</h3>
    <p>An album comprised of unrelated songs.</p> -->
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      <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/718OAeNsyhO1znebsXVSdf" target="blank"><i class="lab la-spotify"></i></a>
      <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/space-time-vol-1-ep/1623507117" target="blank"><i class="lab la-apple"></i></a>
      <a href="https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n1Q3M-zO8gloIvZD4NqMCvz2i9BOHoqIg" target="blank"><i class="lab la-youtube"></i></a>
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    <!-- <h3>Scale Hop</h3>
    <p>My reintroduction to Ableton after a 2-year break in music production.</p> -->
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      <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6tpUJQlZ1I7bWK4X4pwiOj" target="blank"><i class="lab la-spotify"></i></a>
      <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/scale-hop-single/1611874192" target="blank"><i class="lab la-apple"></i></a>
      <a href="https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbBo7a4AT-3s1xhs9FkL5yLM1-QNv3v7c" target="blank"><i class="lab la-youtube"></i></a>
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    <img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e0212903dc5bfc506c84fb16205" alt="Album Art" loading="lazy">
    <!-- <h3>Studio225 Remasters</h3>
    <p>My personal remasters of some old tracks produced in HighSchool audio production classes.</p> -->
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      <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7BNFpIlZMbTksFJzMeiynE" target="blank"><i class="lab la-spotify"></i></a>
      <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/studio225-remasters-remastered-single/1621595606" target="blank"><i class="lab la-apple"></i></a>
      <a href="https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mzt8HGbC1A34irVWolKa6ApC3fCkSeEf8" target="blank"><i class="lab la-youtube"></i></a>
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For more music content, check out [my music page](/music).


<!-- ## Robotics

Before college, I invested most of my time into learning to work with industrial control systems and medium-scale robotics. My specialization was in fully-autonomous and driver-assist navigation algorithms.

I developed a highly flexible navigation and waypoint traversal system for [*Raider Robotics*](https://www.raiderrobotics.org) in highschool, and also wrote a complete robotic control library called: [Lib5K](https://github.com/frc5024/lib5k).

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More information on my robotics work can be found on [my robotics page](/hobbies/robotics). -->


<!-- ## Projects

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    <h3>The Freeform Internet Exchange Project</h3>
    <p>FFIXP is a virtual internet exchange for connecting experimental and research networks in a reasonably safe and controlled manner.</p>
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      <a href="https://github.com/ffixp" target="blank"><i class="lab la-github"></i></a>
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    <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ewpratten/vb3yeet-aprs/master/assets/vb3yeet.png" alt="VB3YEET" loading="lazy">
    <h3>VB3YEET APRS Station</h3>
    <p>This application is a part of Meme Appreciation Month and powers the automatic APRS messaging capabilities behind <a href="/yeet">VB3YEET</a>.</p>
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      <a href="https://github.com/Ewpratten/vb3yeet-aprs" target="blank"><i class="lab la-github"></i></a>
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<!-- ## Am I on air?

...given how little time I leave for hobbies some days, probably not. But it's worth a check anyways. If I happen to be reaching you with my transmissions, please QSL.

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<img src="https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=VA3ZZA&h=e0fa3b8ff28e81a5&a=12" srcset="https://hamalert.org/myspot?c=VA3ZZA&h=e0fa3b8ff28e81a5&hr=1&a=12 2x" style="width:100%;max-width:400px">
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## I make music too!

Every once in a while, I get around to uploading a new track or two. If you'd like to hear my musical experiments, check out my profiles on:

- [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1aLNEmgqBJkhfkEZvf8Vh5)
- [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/evan-pratten/1611566708)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHT3Lt0Mg90bspbMHJfTcA)
- [Amazon Music](https://music.amazon.com/artists/B09TBHQCM1/evan-pratten)

## The Timeline

<ul class="events-list">
<li>2022</li>
<ul>
    <li><div><span>Jan</span> <span>Assigned autonomous system number <a href="https://explorer.burble.com/?#/AS4242422811"><em>4242422811</em></a></span></div></li>
</ul>

<li>2021</li>
<ul>
    <li><div><span>Dec</span> <span>Started the <a href="https://ffixp.net"><em>Freeform Internet Exchange</em></a> project</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Nov</span> <span>Completed the <em>Hurricane Electric IPv6 Certification</em></span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Nov</span> <span>Acquired a /64 and a /48 block of public IPv6 addresses</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Nov</span> <span>Built the Echolink node VA3ZZA-L</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Oct</span> <span>Set up network infrastructure for managing my public IP addresses</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Oct</span> <span>Acquired a /24 block of public IPv4 addresses</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Oct</span> <span>Produced <a href="https://github.com/Ewpratten/ludum-dare-49"><strong>[data::loss]</strong></a> as part of Ludum Dare 49</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Sep</span> <span>Began an <em>Honours Bachelor of Applied Information Sciences</em></span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Aug</span> <span>Acquired a /29 block of public IPv4 addresses</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Jun</span> <span>Participated in ARRL Summer Field Day, scoring 270 points</span></div></li>
    <li><div><span>Apr</span> <span>Produced <a href="https://github.com/Ewpratten/ludum-dare-48"><em>Deep Breath</em></a> as part of Ludum Dare 48</span></div></li>
</ul>

<li>2020</li>
<ul>
  <li><div><span>Aug</span> <span>Participated in Google CTF 2020</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>May</span> <span>Participated in Hack-A-Sat CTF</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Apr</span> <span>Produced <a href="https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/micromanaged-mike"><em>Micromanaged Mike</em></a> as part of Ludum Dare 46</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Mar</span> <span>FRC Humber district event <em>finalists</em> as part of Raider Robotics</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Feb</span> <span>Participated in the Canadian Computing Competition</span></div></li>
</ul>

<li>2019</li>
<ul>
  <li><div><span>Jun</span> <span>Participated in Google CTF 2019</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Apr</span> <span>FRC district championships <em>quarter-finalists</em> as part of Raider Robotics</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Apr</span> <span>FRC Western district event <em>semi-finalists</em> as part of Raider Robotics</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Mar</span> <span>Participated in the ECOO Programming Contest</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Feb</span> <span>FRC Ryerson district event <em>quarter-finalists</em> as part of Raider Robotics</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Feb</span> <span>Participated in the Canadian Computing Competition</span></div></li>
</ul>

<li>2018</li>
<ul>
  <li><div><span>Sep</span> <span>Completed Google's *Foobar* programming challenge</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Apr</span> <span>Participated in the ECOO Programming Contest</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Mar</span> <span>FRC Waterloo district event <em>quarter-finalists</em> as part of Raider Robotics</span></div></li>
  <li><div><span>Mar</span> <span>FRC Georgian district event <em>quarter-finalists</em> as part of Raider Robotics</span></div></li>
</ul>
</ul> -->