Candidature - Daniel Lopez Trazzos

Loic Dachary suggests the implementation of http://tickets.farsides.com/issues/119 and http://tickets.farsides.com/issues/118 or http://tickets.farsides.com/issues/120

Intro/background

 * Can you describe yourself briefly? What did you work on so far ?

I’m very passionate of what I do, I’ve been doing since I started college with major in Computer Science. I think coding was made for me hehe. I have more than 6 years experience in PHP and all web technologies so far. My latest project is one I’m very

Proud of. It’s an electronic invoicing service (www.facturase.com). Here in Mexico starting in 2011, its mandatory to give electronic invoicing instead of normal. The project took over 1 year and I learnt a lot about web services, encryption, xml, I polished my AJAX skills, etc


 * Why are you looking at a new job? And why with Farsides?

Job has been on the low here L and I’m starting to run low on funds. If this continues I’d have to search a job, but jobs here a long hours-low pay, that’s why I prefer freelance.


 * Are you looking for a part time or a full time ? If part time, how many days or half days per week ?

Right now I’m looking for part time..but I can put as much as 30 hours a week. Then if everything goes right, I can start full time.


 * How much were you earning in your last job ?

Right now I’m charging $20 usd / h


 * How much do you wish to earn at Farsides ?

About the same amount. It is basically what I need to live hehe


 * Are you currently a freelancer ?

Yes, I do work for www.dzoic.com but as I mentioned work has been on the low. In the past 3 or 4 months it has drop from 20 hours to 5 hours per week L


 * Where do you live ?

Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico

Technical
Don't worry if you don't have experience in some areas - working is more fun when we have something to learn : )


 * What is the operating system you have the most experience with?

Windows (I actually use W7), I know a little of linux, just to move between files or search and such.


 * What are your favorites development languages/frameworks?

PHP, Javascript

Frameworks: prototype, jquery

Template engine: smarty

I know a little bit of symphony and also a bit of zend

I can work with some of the CMS around too like wordpress, joomla, but I don’t like it too much.

Nope, not yet.
 * Did you contribute to free software projects already (code or other) ? (if yes, please include a link)

- Object oriented development: about 4 years. I like it a lot. Since I started using it I’ve speed my development like tenfold - git: I’m more familiar with svn, but I guess is something similar, right? - Symfony: I worked on a site with this www.lovemybrand.com
 * What is your experience with the following

- Facebook/social network APIs: I have created facebook connect sites (www.akamori.net  www.footballreach.com ) and I have created a couple of sites using the facebook API, therefore I’m familiar with it J   -  Unit tests: I worked one year as tester J I know how to do test cases and such :D - Online communities: I used to be a part of many many forums and many many gaming sites because when I first started with the games (and no money) the only way to get users are the voting sites. - Games: everything from Atari to ps3 :) if you talk about online games. I prefer text based ones because they are not so very time consuming (as their counterparts like WOW) I played cmrpg, travian, xwars, ogame) I also know some of the big companies outthere like bigpoint. - SCRUM: I have no problem with this, I have not used it extensively but I know of it.