Esteban
Manchado Velázquez
emanchado+cvdemiurgo.org
Spanish
8/8/1977
Male
Multifaceted software engineer with more than 10 years of experience. I can work as a developer, quality assurance engineer or project manager, always adapting to the team's needs. I focus on scripting languages (especially Perl and Javascript), but also know others.
I am a strong believer in test automation and in adapting to the environment and circumstances. My main focus as a developer and quality assurance engineer is on code quality, through automated tests, development tools (frequently developed in-house), documentation, workshops, ready-to-use packages and reusable libraries. I have years of experience designing and writing web applications and some experience building cross-platform GUI-based applications (using Qt, WxWidgets and Tk). I am also very experienced in customisation and maintenance of Free Software: I was a Debian Developer between 2002-2011 and I was one of the lead developers for mEDUXa, a Linux distribution for Canarian schools.
Quality Assurance Engineer and Project Manager. Lead QA for several projects, including Opera Link and My Opera. Project Manager for Opera Link, Dev Opera and My Opera.
Software packaging, development of internal tools, automated testing, testing infrastructure and coordination, guidelines and documentation.
Built a testing environment and automated testsuite for the Opera Link server and for My Opera.
Helped design, document and test the Opera Link API. Wrote two articles about the Link API on Dev Opera.
Wrote several automation tools (a database migration tool called Migraine, among others) and improved processes in different projects.
Setup and maintenance of a Continuous Integration Server.
Gave many talks and workshops on tools, processes and software automated testing. Organised several lightning talk sessions.
Built a Debian package repository with packaging guidelines and documentation, along with many Debian packages for both internal and external software. Part of this work was designing, implementing and releasing Arepa (Apt REPository Assistant).
Analysis, design and implementation of custom applications, mostly web-based.
Server administration, software packaging, internal tools development.
Web development: Perl CGIs, Perl + Mason, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Javascript.
System administration: Debian package development, Debian package repositories, Jabber servers, chroot-based "virtual machines", Cygwin, VMWare, UML and Xen.
Cross-Platform GUIs: Perl/Tk, Perl/wxWidgets, Python/Qt, Windows Intaller Compilers.
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Design and development of a next-generation web widget system (DJWidgets, in Perl, and RemixWidgets, later, in Ruby).
One of the main developers of the Meduxa project (a Linux distribution for the Canary Islands government), based on Ubuntu and KDE. Lead developer of the automatic update system.
Development of a small call center based on a Jabber daemon system, written in Python, with a Qt interface.
Development of several internal code generation tools.
Testing evangelist, test development with Perl, Ruby and Python.
Development of an extensible build/configuration/install system for web applications, involving reusable, complex Makefiles.
TWiki patches (including PhotonSkin and PhotonSearch).
One of the advocates of having a public SVN repository for the Free Software produced inside the company. The repository is at BerliOS, in the fotonsi project (WebSVN view) and includes several interesting utilities.
Several talks and seminars.
Design and implementation of a tax system (RecaNET).
PHP, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Perl.
Deployment and Evangelisation of a Source Configuration Management System and a Bug Tracking System.
Refactoring and redesign of some important parts of the application, started a tiny Javascript-based widget system.
Web developer for "Camelot", an application for a law firm.
Firebird database server, and the Mason web component system and Javascript for the application.
Use of Perl+Mason for the application coding, a very modern web component system at the time.
Development of a context-sensitive help system.
System administrator support.
Perl, DNS, DHCP, Mail servers, System Monitoring Tools.
Development of a system administration program called PICA.
Published article (broken link as of Nov 2010) about PICA on the SysAdmin magazine (now defunct).
Licenciado en Informática
Facultad de Informática de la ULPGC
5
1 Oct 1995 - 10 Oct 2000
5
Programming, Software Engineering
"RTHC: Un conversor de RTF a HTML" ("RTHC: An RTF to HTML converter") was given the highest degree ("Matrícula de Honor", A+).
Design and implementation of a generic RTF parsing library in C++, using Design Patterns and UML for the design and the STL for the implementation.
Design and implementation of an RTF to HTML converter utility, using the above library for parsing, and gettext for i18n. The conversion utility was translated into several languages.
Study and documentation of the RTF format.
Study of the Free Software Community history, resources and way of work.
Packaging of the above software for RPM- and Debian-based systems.
A talk describing all of this was presented at Hispalinux III.
Attended "Introduction to Rhetorics", a two-day intensive course on Rhetorics.
Received the Association for Project Management's Introductory Certificate in Project Management.
Spanish
| Language | Listening | Reading | Spoken Interaction | Spoken Production | Writing | |||||
| English | B2 | Independent | C1 | Proficient | B2 | Independent | B2 | Independent | B2 | Independent |
| Norwegian | A1 | Basic | A2 | Basic | A1 | Basic | A1 | Basic | A1 | Basic |
Linux (advanced user level, medium administration).
Windows (medium user level, basic administration).
Perl, Javascript, Ruby, Python, PHP, UNIX scripting languages (sh, bash, sed, awk). Basic notions of Scala, C, C++ and several others.
Good communication skills (especially written).
Experience giving talks and seminars.
I have worked in different volunteer organizations (Debian, Gulic and Amnesty International).
Former employee representative at Opera Software (2010-2011).
Debian Developer from April 2002 to November 2011.
Development of two proposals for a testing framework for dpkg, one using DejaGNU, and the other using Perl's Test::Unit (both integrating C unit tests, using the check library, and functional tests).
Part of the Debian/Ruby library packaging team. Lead developer for the generic Makefile used to compile Debian packages for Ruby libraries and programs.
Maintaining dhelp, a documentation integration program. Rewrote one of the main utilities in Ruby (was C), fixing bugs and adding enhancements like a templating system and making it fully l10nable with gettext.
Part of the Spanish translation team.
RoboHydra testing tool written in Javascript, using Node.js. It's a web server that makes it easy to write mock servers to test HTTP-based clients, do exploratory testing, prototyping, etc. Initially developed for an Opera project, later open sourced as it's completely generic. The code is available on GitHub and its tests are written in Buster.
Simple personal wiki system written in Javascript, using Node.js and the express web development framework. Written to learn about "serious" Node development, try out the Joyent cloud services and because I didn't find any personal wiki written in Javascript I liked. The tests are written using JsTestDriver. The code is available on GitHub.
Opera widget representing the world location of the latest Kiva microloans. It uses the Kiva API to get the information, and it's built with jQuery and QUnit for the tests. The code is available on GitHub.
Simple TODO application I built mainly for myself. It uses a fair amount of Ajax to make the UI as smooth as possible, and it supports postponing tasks and assigning a contact person for each task. Built with Merb and jQuery for the Javascript. The code is available on BitBucket. Unfortunately it's obsolete now, it doesn't run on recent versions of Merb (now Rails).
Functional languages, OOP, DSLs.
Communities; Wikis, collaboration and documentation; Free Software; software packaging; QA and automated testing.
Rhythm, jazz and music in general.
Amateur drummer; basic notions of other percussion instruments, guitar and bass.