About

Work Experience

• Lead Instructor, 

  Oct, 2014 - Present

  Ironhack is an international school that provides intensive courses in tech skills. As Lead Instructor, I teach Web development (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) to beginners looking to enter the tech industry. Between courses, I work on improving the curriculum that's used by all our campuses. I also do speaking engagements as a representative of Ironhack.

  • Personally trained over 150 students so far

  • Helped transition from Ruby, Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL to Angular, Node.js, Express and MongoDB curriculum

• Software Engineer, 

  Aug, 2014 - Present

  I take on freelance Web development projects on a contract basis. I prefer to work with JavaScript in any of its forms.

• Software Engineer, 

  Mar, 2011 - Aug, 20143 years 4 months

  In this digital marketing agency, I architected and developed Web applications and services (usually with heavy social network integrations). Learned and used various technology stacks along the way: Node.js, Python (Django), PHP (CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel), Redis, MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Also wrote a ton of browser JavaScript. Most of the time I was the project lead but I also worked often as part of a team. Additionally, I engaged certain clients directly and enjoyed a friendly relationship with them. It was a very fast paced and intensive learning experience.

  • Developed over a dozen production Web projects

  • Worked with clients such as Samsung, Mozilla, PlayStation and Discovery

• Web Developer, 

  Jan, 2011 - Mar, 20112 months

  Kolapse was a small Web development shop in Puerto Rico. There I developed Web applications for clients using PHP (with CodeIgniter or raw PHP), MySQL and JavaScript on the browser. It was at Kolapse that I experimented with social network integrations for the first time. I worked there until they were acquired by Nobox.

  • Introduced version control (Git) into the team's workflow

• iOS Developer & Research Assistant, 

  Jan, 2009 - Oct, 20101 year 9 months

  Formerly known as ARBIMON, Sieve Analytics is an acoustic monitoring project. Designed and developed an iOS app that enabled the use of iPod touch devices as low-power recorders that capture audio on a configurable schedule. The app then sends the recordings to a server via antenna for audio analysis. As a research assistant I also supported my colleagues in solving problems in other areas of the project such as databases, version control, server scripting and configuration.

  • Developed an iOS app that enabled recording of animals in the wild

  • Over 1,000,000 recordings gathered

  • Wrote comprehensive app user guide for biologists

  • Introduced version control (Subversion) into the team's workflow

• Web Developer & Webmaster, 

  Jul, 2007 - Dec, 20081 year 5 months

  Added and edited content in the university's Web site. Developed my first two real Web applications in a voting system for student council elections and a public campus crime log (both using PHP, MySQL and browser JavaScript).

  • Developed voting system for student body council

  • Developed public campus crime log that is still in use today (http://uprrp.edu/crimelog/)

  • First (painful) experiments with raw browser HTTP requests and DOM APIs

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Education