Curriculum for J. Pablo Fernández in nicely formatted PDF.
Profile
I have more than 10 years of experience programming professionally and I’ve been coding since I was 7 years old developing and contributing to various open source projects. I’ve given conferences and wrote articles on magazines about programming languages, libraries, frameworks, etc. I love coding.
Experience
Simplificator, Software Developer, 2010-03 → Present
● Merging a Ruby on Rails codebase that was forked in three different websites back into one parametrizable one
● Improved server infrastructure: Bacula for backups, Puppet for config, etc.
Google, Software Engineer in Test, 2007-05 → 2010-01
● Developed end-to-end, load, failure, latency tests for various internal applications and for Gmail. Among other things:
○ Found and predicted a bug to be dangerous. It later stopped the development of 53 projects.
○ Increased the realism of a set of tests unveiling at least 3 potentially destructive bugs in internal CRM.
○ Developed a JavaScript mock of the Gmail server to speed up and stabilize UI tests.
● Created web application to keep track of quality metrics of other products in Django with MySQL.
● Tech talks: “Python testing tools”, “Coding in Erlang”, “Introduction to Testing”, “Esperanto”.
Reliable Services S.R.L., Software Developer, 2005-08 → 2007-04
● Developed Asterisk module to manage users and tasks. Working without a flaw since day 1 due to heavy testing.
● Developed gateway between an custom XML protocol and Asterisk’s Manager Interface.
● Added real-time support for agents in Asterisk. Bug: 5143.
● Maintained around 10 complex Asterisk deployments with more than 300 phone terminals, including network design, installation, backup, remote troubleshooting, testing (using SIPp), etc.
Freelancing, Software Developer, 2005-02 → 2005-08
● Developed various small web applications from design to deployment for various clients including: URL shorteners, quote managers, scripts, etc.
● Sustainability/viability study of free instant messaging solutions.
ifPeople, Software Developer, 2004-09 → 2005-01
● Design, set up and deployment of various Plone web sites, one with more than 40 editors requiring custom products.
● Developed Plone products for:
○ Displaying documents stored in other locations (like a symlink)
○ Speeding up the addition of keywords to documents.
○ Embedding external web sites in a Plone web site.
○ Handling quotes including a portlet for displaying.
Andi GmbH, Software Developer, 2003-03 → 2003-11
Developed of a video editor for set top box using C++, Qt, KDE, transcode, mplayer and Xine.
Freelancing, Software Developer, 2002-03 → 2003-03
Developed web sites for a painter, a marble shop and a party organizer. The first one still running today only with some additions.
TecSis, Intern Software Developer & System Administrator, 1999-06 → 2002-03
● Deployed various Linux and OpenBSD servers.
● Developed GUI file usage monitoring application, called KSamStat, for Samba to be able to replace a Novell Netware server.
● Developed a web app to administrate a physical library of CD-ROMs, magazines, books and other educational material.
ITPA S.A., Intern Software Developer & System Administrator, 1998-03 → 1999-06
● Installed a Linux firewall using ipchains.
● Developed web administration tool for it in C using CGI in Apache (yes, a web app in C, crazy days!).
Independent Projects
● My GitHub page: http://github.com/pupeno
● image_button_to: Gem that adds image_button_to and to_function to Rails. Now a patch for Rails 3 (also by me).
● rails_openid: a Gem to help authenticate OpenID users in Rails.
● ubiquitous_user: a Gem to generate users on the fly in a Rails project without requiring log in.
● Sano: health tracker developed over a weekend as an experiment on productivity in Ruby on Rails.
● Is it Science Fiction?: web site to vote and comment on whether specific movies and books are or aren’t science fiction. First wrote in C# and ASP.NET MVC, then re-written in Ruby on Rails.
● Hear a Blog: project developed in a team of two in C# and ASP.NET MVC.
● Dice: dice simulator for Android developed in my free time leading a team of two, developed in Java of course.
● Fanterlastic Four: Example of how to use Serlvers to write some extremely basic IP servers.
● Serlvers: Erlang module to write IP (TCP/IP) servers.
● SCons Erlang: Extension for SCons to be able to build Erlang projects.
● File Activity Viewer: Monitors files and shows the new lines almost real-time (visual tail -f).
● Score Reading Trainer: Improve reading speed of musical scores, written several times it C++, C# and Java.
● KTTSD: A DCOP plug in based Text To Speech service.
Publications
● “Programming in Python part 1” and “… part 2”, Linux Journal, issue 158 and 159, June and July 2007.
● “An XML Approach to Templating with PHPTAL”, and “… continuation” php|architect, volume IV, issue 3 and 4 on 2005.
● “KIO: Input and Output with KDE”, Mundo Linux, issue 71, October 2004.
● “DCOP: Interprocess Communication”, Mundo Linux, issue 70, September 2004.
Conferences
● “Programming Languages and what they can teach us”, 2006-11-11, CaFeLUG’s CaFeConf 2006.
● “Lisp, a different Language”, 2005-11-20, 5º Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre.
● “Lisp, a different Language”, 2005-10-13, CaFeLUG’s CaFeConf 2005.
● “Multi-platform toolkits for graphical interfaces”, 2005-06-06, Usuaria’s Second National Congress of Free Software.
● “Architecture of KDE, building an integrated desktop”, 2004-07-15, II Linux Gathering of Litoral, Entre Rios National University.
● “Programming Qt/KDE, the 1, 2, 3 of GUI programming”, 2004-07-15, II Linux Gathering of Litoral, Entre Rios National University.
● “Develop faster using KDevelop”, 2004-05-28, Usuaria’s First National Congress of Free Software.
● “KDE”, 2004-05-22, CaFeLUG’s First Demo Day.
● “Rapid Application Development with Qt/KDE and KDevelop”, 2004-03-20, CaFeLUG’s Charla Técnica Trimestral.
Buzzwords
● Programming concepts: Functional, object oriented, multiple dispatch, testing, meta-programming.
● Programming Languages: Ruby, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Objective-C, Erlang, Haskell, Smalltalk, C#, Clojure.
● Libraries and frameworks: Qt, KDE, Gtk+, Gnome, Cairo, libFFI, PyGtk, Twisted, GNUstep, Django, Rails, Android.
● XML: DTDs, XHTML with CSS, DOM, DocBook, TAL.
● Databases: SQL, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP.
● Operating systems: Linux (Debian, (K)Ubuntu, Gentoo), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X.
● Version control: Git, Mercurial, Darcs, Subversion, Perforce, CVS.
● Administration: Apache, Asterisk, Bacula, BIND, Courier MTA, ejabberd, OpenSSH, radvd, Zope.
● Networking: IPv4 (TCP/IP), IPv6, TCP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, RTP, SIP.
Education
● 1982 → end-of-time Self-learning of computer science by books, papers, magazines, videos, etc.
● 2004 → 2007 Attended some university courses as a visitor.
● 1996 → 2001 Electronics & Electromechanics, Technology Institute Philips Argentina.
Languages
● Spanish: Native.
● English: Read, written and conversational.
● Esperanto: Basic.
Some achievements
● 1995 Won mathematics olympics, which gave me a scholarship.
● 1995 Got a first degree Taekwon-do black belt.