Jose Solorzano is a software consultant who specializes in Data Science and has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Kaggle – the primary platform for predictive modeling competitions – classifies Jose as a "competitions grandmaster". In 2012, Kaggle named Jose among the "top 10 data scientists active on Kaggle." Jose is also the original author of leJOS, a very low footprint open source Java VM subset with applications in amateur robotics. Jose's current hobby open source project is sim-transit-lc, a toolset for simulation and optimization (fitting) of exoplanetary transit light curves.