Vladimir Kameñar
Editor at CelerSMS
Biography
Electronics Engineer. Professor at the Faculty of Systems Engineering, National University of Colombia, 2004 - 2007. Senior Technical Leader at Thales Group.
I started programming in the '90s, when computers were more expensive than cars and there was no Internet. These were the times of MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal, floppy disks. In the early 2000s it was really difficult to find good technical material on programming in Spanish. There were no online translation services either. So, I started translating some articles, tutorials, books, mainly in English and Russian. That's probably the reason why I was hired as a professor at the Faculty of Systems Engineering. I also worked for BellSouth, developing CDMA software before the smartphone era.
Currently I develop telecommunications solutions for an aerospace company, edit the CelerSMS Journal and volunteer at the Educamas Foundation.
All materials that I have written or translated are in the public domain.
Publications
- CriptoNukak: A transport-level communication protocol specialized in the management of medical information (2004)
- Android, the Open OS for Developers (in Spanish) includes articles for Android developers (2021-05-30)
- The Unofficial XM File Format Specification covering the original XM (extended module) file format specification and several known sub-formats (2021-08-13)
- Demoscene, the Digital Art (in Spanish) covers demoscene as an art form, presents its origins, traditions and achievements (2021-09-30)
- PTTP (Plain Text Telemetry Protocol): An application-level communication protocol for telemetry, using plain text encoding (2022-07-19)
Projects
- uFMOD (or µFMOD): An open-source tiny XM player library written in Assembly language, including XMStrip, a utility tool to reduce the size of an XM file (2006)
- ImpLib SDK: Produces custom Import libraries for Windows DLL (2006)
- SIMAlliance ML (de)compiler: Bytecode compiler and decompiler for the S@T 01.00 standard (2008)
- LBS for 2G and 3G: A Location Based System (LBS) for mobile operators, featuring the MLP protocol and computing the location in real time based on the HLR (SS7 protocol) (2010)
- SMS Proxy: Use your mobile as a proxy to send SMS (2019)
- MMS compiler: A tool to generate Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) files, including text, images, audio and video (2019)
Membership
- Researcher at MinCiencias (former Colciencias) since 2005.
- Preselection jury at the AI@Centech international accelerator program since 2020
- Mentor at the Educamas Foundation since 2021