Albert Llop Yacobi

Me2

Hi, I'm a computer guy who loves to code stuff in ruby, drink beer, and play all kinds of video games. I'm located in the best city of the world, Barcelona.

@mrsimo

albertllop at gmail dot com

Academic

  • Degree in Informatics Engineering

    Barcelona Informatics Faculty

    For the non-spanish people, that was a five year degree which we'd like to think to be equivalent to a classic 3 year degree plus a masters, more common in the rest of Europe. You can see how well I did in there. It's in catalan, sorry.

Professional

  • Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica Hospital del Mar

    (2010 - present)

    Servei de Recursos Informàtics

    Currently employed here. Ruby on Rails development of the internal administrative websites and general systems administration work.

  • Kings of Mambo

    (2008 - 2010)

    Ruby on Rails developer

    Developed multiple projects, all different in size and requirements, with a small team of developers and designers.

Skills

I've been a Mac user for some time now, but I've worked with linux (generally ubuntu) before, as a user and as an sys admin. Windows gives me the creeps.

  • Ruby on Rails

    My main experience in the area of website development is with this framework. I know bits and pieces of php and asp, but would never go as far as to call me a php or asp developer.

    • Worked in dozens of projects, professionally and with real clients.
    • I know enough sphinx to know how to make weighed searches ignoring caps and accents.
    • Implemented panda in one of the projects for online video encoding in the cloud. Also modified it heavily to adapt the needs of the site.
    • I feel comfortable enough with ruby to understand most plugins and gems I've put my eyes on.

  • Systems Admin

    In my work as website developer I've had to work often with web servers. It's my secret passion. Managing, monitoring, benchmarking, they are all words that I love. Amazon EC2 is a dream come true.

    • I consider myself proficient in any unix environment.
    • I defend myself very decently with apache and nginx.
    • I was the responsible for the implementation of a chef server and the configuration of a number of clients, with the development of a custom series of cookbooks, in order to adapt them to the needs of our company, and automatically manage all the virtual servers dedicated to serve Rails applications.
    • I know what god and monit are.
    • The amount of rails application you can run in a 256 slice is usually two.

  • Other skills

    • Plenty of experience with GIT as version control system, and github as the hosting. Very small experience with SVN.
    • Enough knowledge of XHTML and CSS to implement this portfolio. And it validates! I can make it look good in Internet Explorer, but I don't want to be hired by anyone using it.
    • Prototype, jQuery, Scriptaculous and basically anything related to Javascript.
    • Enough experience in sql to know when something is going to be really slow.