Luis Merino Senior Front-end Developer
Summary
I am Senior Front-end Developer with over 8 years of experience developing applications.
I'm an active player on the Javascript ecosystem and its tooling both on the browser and behind it.
I've been part of a great number of teams, such as Cloud9IDE and Moviepilot.com, where I've been exposed to a great variety of technical challenges. I'm particularly good at creating great multiplatform UX experiences.
My personal development projects include a visualizer of user journeys with nodes and edges and attached snapshots and a social SVG icons generator built using SVG.js. I've also been a contributor to Chaplin.js and MooTools.
Languages
Spanish (native), English (fluent), German (B1) and Catalan
Skills
Javascript: Vanilla, React.JS, Can.js, D3.js.
Node.js: KOA/Express.js, Socket.io, Grunt, Bower, Gulp, NPM.
Ruby: Rvm, RoR, Sinatra, Padrino, ActiveRecord.
Others: React-Native, with some exp. on Swift/Objective-C and some in Scala.
TDD/BDD: CI with Karma.js, Buster.js, Sinon.js, QUnit, Jasmine, PhantomJS, Capybara...
SQL and NoSQL: Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
UI/UX exp: SCSS/Less, Sketch, Zeplin, FramerJS, etc.
Other: Unix, Vagrant, Docker, Git.
Streghts
- Decision-making and Learning fast
- Performance, cross-browser maintenable Javascript/CSS cores
- Web-Component/React-Component crafting
- React-Native (learning as I go)
- Building API's, thinking on latency, bytesize and progressive enhancement
- App services - connecting dataflows, and tools to monitor, track, etc.
Experience summary
Amazon Web Services, Unix, Data mining, Data visualization, Web services, Protocols, NGINX, CDN, Heroku (SEMSERVER), Git, Open Source, CRO, web/mobile optimization, UX/UI, HTML5 mobile development.
Latest Projects
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Nestpick.com 2015-2016
Nestpick initially started as a small portal connecting tenants with landlords through mid to long-term contracts. As of 2015, the platform receives several thousands of visitors every day looking for a way to book an mid or long-term apartment online, for their next move across 30 cities.
Goals: Decoupling, minifying codebase to optimize loading time and create an astonishing mobile experience.
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Proudsugar.com 2013-2015
Proudsugar is a agency that operates as a Growth Service. With a custom methodology it provides research and solutions for revenue growth with the existing traffic. Improvements happen from three angles: communication, design and technology.
My role as CTO deemed working many code bases: Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Python... Data gathering tools, like Mixpanel, Keen.IO, and RJ Metrics. We built custom tools to help us with the growth work for clients, based on D3, and Padrino framework.
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Moviepilot.com 2012-2013
Moviepilot is a startup ranking second after IMDB. They target audience interested in the upcoming filmatographic releases to create a community. User can contribute with content. It servers hundreds of thousands of requests per month.
My role as Front-end Lead included working with source code on RoR and Chaplin.JS to build the component-based single-page app.
The team use a broad set of technologies to accomplish a performance-optimized product: PhantomJS, Buster.js and Sinon.js along with Jenkins. D3.js, crawlers and graph search and data analysis.
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cloud9ide.com 2011
Cloud9 is a development environment that runs on modern browsers. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Go, etc.
The Workspaces are a maintained infrastructure in the cloud. Each project can be integrated with multiple services, including SauceLabs to test virtually on any device.
As a developer I was able to work on Node.js and Browser features. During my 7 months at C9, I was responsible for the Heroku, Dropbox and FTP integrations within the product. The agile team and the frenetic development process required a multitude of skills.
