Who am I

I am a very simple person with a wide array of skills. I'm an avid learner, I love to learn new things. I have a Computer Science degree, but the skill I'm most proud of is how to make poached eggs. I love pizza, so I spent 4 years working in a restaurant learning how to make it. I wanted bread, so I started growing yeast. I like spice, so I grew chillies. I needed tools so I turned on the belt sander and made myself a lame and a pizza paddle. The food was looking good so I got a camera and learned how to shoot. Pictures turned to videos, so I learned how to edit.

This is who I am in a nutshell. If I need something, I make it. I collect knowledge that might be useful down the line.

But what can I do professionally?

As I mentioned, I have a Computer Science degree, which mean I've been formally trained in software development, from how to organize a production pipeline and manage a team all the way down to how the hardware works. There are many facets in the development cycle of an application, and that is the range of skills I invested most of my time on.

I started writing code when I was 14, in BASIC, on an i386 mounting Windows 3.11
My father before me when COBOL was a thing.

Nothing fancy, just things that sell, what a company needs to function:

• Inventory management
• Suppliers management
• Transfers
• Accounting
• Training classes
• HR tools
• CRMs
• Sales
• Distribution

When you put all these together you get what is called an ERP application and that's what I started with, converting my father's code in Java, and adding my own. I later transitioned from standalone to web based and started integrating the management systems in the ecommerce website's back-end, making a single solution, using HTML5, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.

Converting old code is not always straightforward, most of the time the legacy code goes straight to the bin, and you end up just keeping the concept, but sometimes not even the algorithm can be kept, as developers in the '80s didn't have resources of concepts that are widely available now, such as object orientated programming, design patterns or even something as simple as cheap DBMS integration. To put it in perspective, Php, or even just HTML, didn't exist back then and keeping a Database required a data analyst, so that quickly turned from following the footsteps of a pioneer in the field to having my own original code.

While doing that I made sure to polish my photography skills, joining a semi-professional photography club where I ended up specializing in video production.