I'm Nicolás Andrade, senior PHP programmer with experience on high-traffic websites -above 20 million visits a day-. I'm working as Lead Software Developer for Manwin Canada in Montreal, managing a dynamic and growing team of back-end developers. I've started at Manwin as software developer and because of my leadership, good analytic skills and responsibility I was promoted to my current position. Took me less than one year and a half -and some big mistakes- to prove that I can prevent issues from happening, diagnose fast and react quickly when I'm under high stress situations; and that I can plan, organize and carry on a project when in normal mode. I am very argumentative, dynamic, innovative and practical. Good team member, however from time to time I like to be the protagonist of the film.
I'm running a technical blog and from time to time I write something on my personal weblog. You can contact me either on English, French or Spanish at the email on the footer of this site.
I like to work with people who ask for forgiveness before asking for permission; curious people who pushes the red button to see what happens. But always assuming the responsibility. That's the key. If you made a mistake, assume it! Wear a red T-shirt with the phrase "I broke it" and explain graciously how, when and why. Be proud of your curiosity and be conscious of it's consequences.
I'm running a technical blog and from time to time I write something on my personal weblog. You can contact me either on English, French or Spanish at the email on the footer of this site.
I like to work with people who ask for forgiveness before asking for permission; curious people who pushes the red button to see what happens. But always assuming the responsibility. That's the key. If you made a mistake, assume it! Wear a red T-shirt with the phrase "I broke it" and explain graciously how, when and why. Be proud of your curiosity and be conscious of it's consequences.
Software development experience
From Nov 2010 to present: ManWin Canada
Current position: Lead Software Developer.
I was hired by Manwin Canada as back end software developer back in November 2010. Since then I've worked on 6 projects in the company such as Pornhub.com and VideoBash.com.
Took me a short period of time to adapt me to the company and to start giving good and valuable results. I've got assigned an internal project named Deployment Tool, now used widely across all Manwin offices around the globe. Everybody working on IT at Manwin knows it.
I've worked as back-end programmer on PHP, MySQL and Redis for the Pornhub project during a period of five or six months until I've got the lead programmer role. A short period of time passed and I was assigned to a fully new team, composed by new hires, and got assigned a set of small projects the company wanted to grow.
Since then I am the lead software developer of one of the Manwin Tubes teams, learning on the go, training new people and taking care of four PHP projects, including infrastructure design, software architecture, resources management, tasks management and everything related to the IT aspect such as code reviews and deployments.
My approach is very open. All my developers can deploy the application to the production environment, because all of them know the task work flow within our and external teams. They know how to monitor the servers, gather information from logs, verify status of all services, and make sure that everything is in good shape. That is a must when dealing with high-traffic websites as we do.
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 departments such as quality assurance, the mobile department, 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 and everything that could be technically involved.
About Manwin Canada:
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.
I was hired by Manwin Canada as back end software developer back in November 2010. Since then I've worked on 6 projects in the company such as Pornhub.com and VideoBash.com.
Took me a short period of time to adapt me to the company and to start giving good and valuable results. I've got assigned an internal project named Deployment Tool, now used widely across all Manwin offices around the globe. Everybody working on IT at Manwin knows it.
I've worked as back-end programmer on PHP, MySQL and Redis for the Pornhub project during a period of five or six months until I've got the lead programmer role. A short period of time passed and I was assigned to a fully new team, composed by new hires, and got assigned a set of small projects the company wanted to grow.
Since then I am the lead software developer of one of the Manwin Tubes teams, learning on the go, training new people and taking care of four PHP projects, including infrastructure design, software architecture, resources management, tasks management and everything related to the IT aspect such as code reviews and deployments.
My approach is very open. All my developers can deploy the application to the production environment, because all of them know the task work flow within our and external teams. They know how to monitor the servers, gather information from logs, verify status of all services, and make sure that everything is in good shape. That is a must when dealing with high-traffic websites as we do.
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 departments such as quality assurance, the mobile department, 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 and everything that could be technically involved.
About Manwin Canada:
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 as an associate 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, according to the customer needs and budget.
With them I made many developments for different big companies and small startups, and I participated on many internal projects.
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.”
With them I made many developments for different big companies and small startups, and I participated on many internal projects.
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 28 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