User:Kawigi

I just thought I'd let people know that I'm poking around.

My name is Matthew Reeder and I'm also known as Kawigi on TopCoder and Sphere (where my real name is usually displayed for anything useful), and also in the Robocode community. I graduated from Brigham Young University in 2004, after having competed in the 2004 ACM ICPC World Finals in Prague, and now I work at a small software company near Seattle called "Microsoft", where I'm involved in UI for an inconsequential productivity suite called "Office".

On TopCoder, I'm an eternal yellow - I haven't ever been rated higher or lower (but I hope I'm red rather than blue if I ever break out of it). I've written a couple of TC matches (SRM 220 and 225 so far), and learned that not everyone likes your favorite problems. I'm also the original author of the popular editor plugin, KawigiEdit, which since its original release more than a year ago has become perhaps the most widely used editor on TopCoder (Coming soon: KawigiEdit 2!). I use almost exclusively Java during competitions, but I have a baseline ability to use any of the languages allowed, partly due to my efforts to make KawigiEdit's features work in all four languages.

If you want to chat or whatever, you can reach me through: ICQ: 6944879 (someday I'll stop losing my contact list) AIM: kawigi Y!: kawigi MSN: kawigi at hotmail (note don't use this for email, it doesn't get checked). email: kawigi at yahoo