Although I initially coordinated the parties involved in different projects, COVID-19 brought us some changes and I also programmed several projects. I developed a small PHP framework for a framework-skeptical client and was a good starting point despite not being as complete as Symfony or Laravel. I also got started at Ionic to develop the main part of a dating app.

I started as the manager of the internal development team (4 people) were I had to take control of a DHL vintage software to update some features for Spain and Panamá. After 6 months I was outsourced to BBVA Real State department (Anida) where I managed the web team (5 people) applying Agile methodologies, developing software tests and writing technical reports. I also learned Python in order to develop some automated tasks mostly related to the registration/cancellation of bank employees using LDAP.

As my main responsibilities for this group of companies, I had to gather internal requirements for different partners, manage the technical infrastructure for fulfilling web services and verify that outsourced developments complied with the standards of the company. Most of the websites ran Wordpress and was not a technical challenge to me, however it helped me improve my management skills in a medium-sized company.

In this job I got involved in all the processes of many different projects: gathering requirements, designing, programming, testing, and so on. Besides listening to our customers to adapt those days technologies to their projects, and no the other way around, our full commitment to every single project gave us the opportunity to earn their trust and became an external development department for a few marketing agencies (Grupo Moliner, Ideagoras, Nbrion or Thinkwild Studios). Thanks to all these collaborations we could participate in some international projects for large companies like Merck, General Electric Healthcare or Inditex, as well as other interesting developments for Mapfre, Orange, Comess Group and more. In order to provide better solutions to our customers we adopted new technologies like frameworks, mobile developments and some CMS, and new methodologies like version control or agile methodologies.

In this role I could experiment and got my previous knowledge to a higher level, using AJAX (probably too much) and emphasizing frontend design. I developed some internal software like CRM, team workflows and stock managers mainly.

In my first professional job as a programmer, I learned AJAX and programmed some features for ozu.es, a 90’s Hispanic community with about 1M visits monthly. In addition to taking part launching dalealplay.com, a video-sharing community similar to YouTube, I learned about the work philosophy of a great team.