A Self-Introduction

Hi, my name is Jesus Solis. I graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering. This gave me a well-rounded education in things like programming and math.

In college, I took a class focusing on software performance, where I used C for projects such as making more efficient ‘malloc’ implementations as measured with various metrics. I also took a class on interpreters and I used C++ to make an interpreter for a Python-like language. I enjoyed these classes and hope to work with more low-level code like this in the future.

Open Source

I'm interested in continuing to improve my programming skills. I also want to be able to use what I know to help people. For these reasons, I have been looking to contribute to open-source software, and in 2025 I started making small contributions to LibreOffice. I was interested in that project in particular because I have used the office suite myself; I was also interested because most of the code is user space code in C++, and I wanted to work with and learn more about this low-level code.

In 2026, I applied to and was accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code. More information on the project is available in another blog post, as well as on the official Google Summer of Code website (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/WdCsAb7P). I look forward to contributing to open source software for a long time.

This Blog

In the near future, I hope to use this blog to document some of the things I'm doing for Google Summer of Code. I will also post major personal or career updates as I see fit.