Software development experience
From Nov 2010 to present: ManWin Canada
Currently working as Lead Developer. I've started in November 2010, working in different CMSs and internal tools; now widely used by all projects in the company. Three months later I got the whole VideoBash.com project, because the main developer of the site needed to leave the office for a period of time. I've worked for not more than 2 months replacing the developer during his license.
Once he came back I was assigned to one of the biggest projects, PornHub.com, having more than 20 million visitors a day. I've worked in the PornHub project as developer first during two months; and the company decided to prioritize this project, so new members were hired and the team growth up quickly. Being a team without any clear leader required somebody of us to take the lead position, and I took it -unofficially- because of my natural leader skills. According to the papers I was not the lead developer, but at the end of the day I was planning tasks, reviewing code, defining changes in the infrastructure, gathering statistics and monitoring tasks.
That helped me to improve my leadership skills, and the results were good enough to make my manager promote me -this time officially- as lead developer.
Now, as lead developer I report to the Development Manager, and work very close to the product manager, who defines the business strategy with the rest of his team. I'm in charge of planning and coordinating tasks within my development team and other teams such as quality assurance, the mobile team, front-end and system administrators. I'm also available 24x7 to solve any issue that could appear in any of the projects, including not only webnodes, database, Redis or MemCached; but also CDN nodes, origin servers, encoding process, etc.
Besides my lead developer role, I keep working in internal tools of the company to help all other teams to achieve their goals in an easy and safe way.
About the company:
Established in June 2004, Manwin is an international organization, with corporate offices in Europe. The corporation strives to achieve excellence in various areas in web technology. Manwin pushes the boundaries of web technology by using leading edge object-oriented development principles, in a web 2.0 environment. One area they specialize in is internet traffic generation.
Once he came back I was assigned to one of the biggest projects, PornHub.com, having more than 20 million visitors a day. I've worked in the PornHub project as developer first during two months; and the company decided to prioritize this project, so new members were hired and the team growth up quickly. Being a team without any clear leader required somebody of us to take the lead position, and I took it -unofficially- because of my natural leader skills. According to the papers I was not the lead developer, but at the end of the day I was planning tasks, reviewing code, defining changes in the infrastructure, gathering statistics and monitoring tasks.
That helped me to improve my leadership skills, and the results were good enough to make my manager promote me -this time officially- as lead developer.
Now, as lead developer I report to the Development Manager, and work very close to the product manager, who defines the business strategy with the rest of his team. I'm in charge of planning and coordinating tasks within my development team and other teams such as quality assurance, the mobile team, front-end and system administrators. I'm also available 24x7 to solve any issue that could appear in any of the projects, including not only webnodes, database, Redis or MemCached; but also CDN nodes, origin servers, encoding process, etc.
Besides my lead developer role, I keep working in internal tools of the company to help all other teams to achieve their goals in an easy and safe way.
About the company:
Established in June 2004, Manwin is an international organization, with corporate offices in Europe. The corporation strives to achieve excellence in various areas in web technology. Manwin pushes the boundaries of web technology by using leading edge object-oriented development principles, in a web 2.0 environment. One area they specialize in is internet traffic generation.
From Jan 2008 to Oct 2010: GotVertigo
I've worked with GotVertigo for more than 2 years as Head and Lead Developer, working with different technologies and great customers. I was in charge of integrating different technologies in our developments, acording to the customer needs.
References:
Claudio Marcelo Galarza, Owner, GOT.VERTIGO (colleague)
“Nicolas is a very responsible developer and a very deep technology enthusiastic. It was very constructive to me have been worked with him.”
Pablo Grandinetti, Creative Director & CEO, GOT.VERTIGO (colleague)
“Nicolás is an amazing programmer and most important a great partner. As our lead programmer he directly managed the development team and was a key participant in the succeed of every single big project we did (most of them for big corporations like Universal Music and also for an important list of international startups). I strongly recommend him for any kind of new media project, specially if he can be on a leading development role.”
References:
Claudio Marcelo Galarza, Owner, GOT.VERTIGO (colleague)
“Nicolas is a very responsible developer and a very deep technology enthusiastic. It was very constructive to me have been worked with him.”
Pablo Grandinetti, Creative Director & CEO, GOT.VERTIGO (colleague)
“Nicolás is an amazing programmer and most important a great partner. As our lead programmer he directly managed the development team and was a key participant in the succeed of every single big project we did (most of them for big corporations like Universal Music and also for an important list of international startups). I strongly recommend him for any kind of new media project, specially if he can be on a leading development role.”
From Nov 2007 to Dec 2007: Proyectiva
Development company based in Argentina. I've done some work for different pharmacy websites, mostly based in the United States. It was a nice environment, but after some months I left the company to join GotVertigo because the projects where much more challenging.
From May 2007 to Sep 2007: Beseder MMG Designs
Small web development company and hardware retailer store. The biggest project in Beseder MMG Designs was a chain of digital photo printing stores; we provided all the front-end, back-end and communications system and technical support. I was in charge of source code and performance measurements.
From Mar 2007 to Jun 2007: INDEC
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos of Argentina, something like the national institute of statics. I worked as software developer for specific projects, mostly based in ASP and Microsoft SQL.
From Aug 2006 to Sep 2006: Mondial de handball de la jeunesse féminine
Womans Youth Team Handball World Championship Tournament Sherbrooke 2006
From Sep 2004 to Jun 2006: Exelsum
Development company with headquarters in Buenos Aires and offices in the United States and Spain. With Exelsum I've worked mostly on Intranet and Extranet projects for different first line companies such as Red Hat Latin America and 3Com Latin America, using PHP and Oracle 9i or PostgreSQL.
From Mar 2004 to Mar 2004: Ciudad Internet
Well-known ISP in Latin America, providing access through ADSL, cable and dial-up connections
Projects I've worked in
PornMD
Developed for ManWin Canada to be used in Canada
PornHub
Developed for ManWin Canada to be used in Canada
ExtremeTube
Developed for ManWin Canada to be used in Canada
VideoBash
Developed for ManWin Canada to be used in Canada
I coded using
I was born in January 1985 in Lanus Oeste, Buenos Aires, Argentina.I'm a 27 years old self-taught PHP developer formed over years of work in different companies and as a freelance contractor.
I'm living in Montréal, Canada since end-September 2010, so I speak english at work and french in my personal life since then. Fortunately I'm a fast language learner, this enables me to communicate proficiently in both languages.
Most of the time I spent in front of a computer I use Ubuntu Linux -even when recording I use Ardour-, but I've worked with different distributions too, such as Debian -not so different- and RedHat/Fedora.
Besides computing, I like learning and playing the bass guitar. You can find out more about the music I like at last.fm