I have just added this to LinkedIn, but I think this might useful as well...

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I love Research. Academia is prune to impracticality, so what's the best place to innovate? Videogames. My goal in life is help achieve true Artificial Intelligence.

For that I have spent time understanding complexity, languages, and collaboration schemes.

I spent 5 years at IBM working with communication protocols, either high-performance or resilient ones. I love grokking languages so I learned Scheme, Smalltalk, Assembler x86 & Amazon, Ruby, Erlang, AS3, Haskell, Factor... I'm interested in the idiosyncrasy of human languages such as Latin, Esperanto, Lojban, Tokipona, Chinese, German and American Sign Language. In all the cases, I have either directly or indirectly benefited from insights I got learning them. I'm a better engineer thanks to learning how others find it natural to work.

I have spent 2 years and a half with the web as my platform. I have learned a bit about usability but the important things are the lessons found about how people and/or services collaborate to get things done. I have followed startups to see how they got successful. I have studied Sociology, History and Cognitive Science. I continually look for papers on System Dynamics, Game and Social Network theory.

Having learned CMMi and Scrum, right now my duties lie on the team management area (though I love to code my theories). I find risk management, knowledge management and estimation theory great aggregates to my tool belt.

I love videogames for the way they give me good reasons to practice all these skills. I'm nowhere an expert in any of these areas but I'm progressing and that's fine Rome wasn't built in a day.