Lespiau, Matías Sebastián

Personal Details

• Age: 22 years
• Marital Status: Single
• Degree in course: Telecommunications Engineering
• Nationality: Argentina

Objective

Seeking a position for using my development skills and abilities to produce innovative, flexible and maintainable software in an environment that focuses on good programming practices.

Experience

• Freelance

  Programmer - Web application development in PHP & mySQL using CakePHP framework. HTML & CSS using web standards.

  Nov 2007

  • Elemental Soap Works - (Work in progress). Product/Accounts/Orders administration. Shopping cart integrated with UPS Shipping calculator and USA E-pay. Address and credit card validation.

• Dos al cubo

  Programmer - Web application development in PHP & mySQL. Performance optimization for high traffic website. Several e-commerce websites. Local payment gateway integration. Accessible, standard-compliant HTML & CSS. Small contribution to company's proprietary framework.

  Jun 2007 - Oct 2007

  • Canal 5 - Most of the HTML & CSS layout. Most of the php front-end and back-end programming.
  • Subite Ya - Back-end programming. Some HTML & CSS pages.
  • Infobae - Bug fixing, added some - HTML & CSS, backend and around 60% of the front end functionality), small styling work. (Legacy application).

• IDS Outsourcing

  Programmer - Web application development in PHP & mySQL. Maintenance and modification of existing systems and projects build from scratch. Payment gateway integration like Verify and Usa E-Pay. CMS and blog installation and customization (Joomla, Wordpress, b2evolution). PHP frameworks/libraries used: Simpletest, Code Igniter, Smarty. SEO: Markup validation, Yahoo! and MSN Search API, search engines screen scrapping (Google y AOL). AJAX (Prototype & YUI).

  Jan 2007 - Jun 2007

  • (Warning: Adult site) - Jet Set Men - Bug fixing, core enhancements proposed by me (sessions & security), small features (like RSS feeds).
  • (Warning: Adult site) - Rooster Jack - Front-end and back-end programming using Code Igniter. Project done under high pressure and bad estimations.
  • seGPS - (Ajax Intranet Application). Search engines position tracking over time. Used MSN and Yahoo! search API and screen scrapping. Used ajax Prototype for js effects. Taught test-driven development to my co-worker (used in the models).

• Erilink S. A.

  Network Administrator - Linux server administration and migration. High availability clustering with Linux-HA. Technical Support.

  Ago 2006 –Jan 2007

  • LAN configuration.
  • Server migration and configuration: Mailserver (sendmail), apache, mysql, samba (mobile profiles).
  • Automated server backups.

• A.DE.S.E. (Asociación de Desarrollo Social y Educativo)

  Technology - Development of management tools in PHP & MSSQL Server. LAN administration and maintenance. Technical Support.

  Feb 2005 – Ago 2006

  • Building and maintaining intranet application that manages economic and academic information for: salesman, students, tutors and administrative personnel.

Studies

5th year student of Telecommunications Engineering. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE).

Technical Knowledge

• PHP experienced programmer (Structured and object-oriented programming).
• Javascript and SQL knowledge.
• Academicals knowledge of Java, Python, C and C++ (Learned from books and university classes).
• Agile practices: Test Driven Development. Design Patterns, Refactoring, DRY and YAGNI.
• PHP Frameworks: Simpletest (Unit testing). MVC: CakePHP, a little of Symphony and Code Igniter.
• AJAX: Prototype, YUI and jquery (fan).
• Version Control: SVN.
• Web design: XHTML and CSS with W3C standards. Web accessibility.

Language certification:

Certificate in Advanced English (CAE), University of Cambridge. – Feb 2003

Other Activities & Hobbies:

• Reading books (Science, development and science fiction).
• Reading blogs (most of them web-development related).
• Role playing games and card games (Legend of the 5 rings being my favourite).
• Listening to music and playing the keyboard.