Hi!
My name is Alejandro Fernández. I'm a full-stack developer based in Amsterdam. Let's talk.
Skills (In no particular order)
- Semantic HTML5 / CSS3
- Responsive CSS
- SASS/SCSS
- Javascript
- ES2015
- jQuery
- EmberJS
- Photography
- Legacy browsers & Legacy code
- A/B testing
- Ruby on Rails
- Git
- Basic Bash programming
- Basic Perl programming
- Mac OS
- Photoshop
- Fireworks
Timeline
Started to learn Elixir
Released messaging platform
Developed the interface for the messenger application to help customers and properties to communicate with each other.- SCSS
- Responsive CSS
- Redux pattern
Hackathon project with EmberJS and Electron.
I built a small desktop application using web technologies for the recruiting team.
- ember-cli
- electron
Back to programming full time.
After three quarters as a Team Lead and many meetings I moved back to a full time developer position in the Post Booking team. There I developed tools for helping the customer after they have booked.
Team Lead Promotion
I was moved to the Group Search team, responsible of optimising the website for stays of more than two people. I managed a team of 5 people while I helped with the development tasks.
- Management
- Agile facilitator
- Jira
Became part of the interviewing team
Participate in the hiring process for new javascript developers: going to recruiting events and conducting interviews.
- Interviewing
Started working at Booking.com
My first role was as a Javascript developer in the Locali{s,z}ation team. I was responsible of maintaining and improving the existing L10n APIs for time, distance, currency, etc. I also ran experiments for local markets.
- Perl
- jQuery
- HTML::Template
- API Design
- A/B testing
Released Direct Seguros funnel
Javascript application to control the flow and the logic of the hiring funnel of a car insurance company. We had to integrate against their webservices to gather all the values for the funnel and to save the insurance offer.
The frontend is a SPA that communicates with a JSON API written with Rails. The flow of the multistep form is regulated with an adhoc state machine implemented in Javascript.
- Capybara
- Acceptance testing
- Phantom JS
- Rails
Released Talishoes.com
Released an ecommerce for luxury shoes. The catalog was a backbone application that loaded all the products against an REST API.
Unfortunately the website is no longer online
- Backbone
- Rails
- REST
- JSON
Released Gustavo Gili website
Ecommerce for a spanish publiser specialiced in architecture, design, photography and other arts.
- Rails
- ERb
- Fireworks
Started working as a Lead Frontend Developer at Diximedia
Part of the team from Prisacom started a company with their own newspaper: lainformacion.com. They offered me the chance to build the frontend from scratch.
- jQuery plugins
- Management
- Subversion
- Semantic HTML
Launched new redesing of Cadenaser.com
First work as a Junior Frontend Developer at Prisacom
Mantaining high-traffic sites for the most important editorial group of Spain (elpais.com, as.com, cadenaser.com, cuatro.com, etc.).
- Accessiblity
- Semantic HTML
First job as a developer. Path0 Informática
This was my very first job.
Finished CFGS Administración de Sistemas Informáticos
Begin CFGS Administracion de Sistemas Informaticos
Started a two year degree in system's administration in “Centro María auxiliadora”
- Networks
- C programming
- Operating systems
- Linux
First mIRC script
Internet started to seriously have presence in Spain, and the IRC networks were used by many. I learned to program doing a script for mIRC. Sadly that code is lost forever.
Very basic MS-DOS commands
C:\> a: A:\> cd games A:\games\> cd tetris A:\games\tetris> tetris