Jaime Herrera

Background

About Jaime Herrera

Trench programmer with an electronics background. Since childhood I was an electronics enthusiast, picking apart my electric toy cars and watching the sparks between it and the powered tracks. I dreamed about building robots, so I pursued an Electronics Engineering degree focused on automation. However, that first place in my list of passions was irrevocably replaced by coding after my first programming course. I wanted to create software, to be the one behind the scenes moving all those bytes around the computer. Still, I got into a industrial automation position as my first job after university. Though it had its share of perks - few things makes you sweat like starting up a multimillion industrial equipment configured by yourself - it wasn't my passion. I did not want to make a career on the user side of the software, so I applied to a position in Synopsys and it has been my best decision ever. R&D at Synopsys' TCAD group appeals to all my interests; high performance computing, computer graphics, desktop applications, Python and C++.