Dario Sande, Developer in Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones Department, Uruguay
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Dario Sande

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Software Developer

Location
Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones Department, Uruguay
Toptal Member Since
September 17, 2013

Dario is a software engineer with a five-year degree and 10+ years of experience primarily focused on open source technologies. He can easily move from back- to front-end development, and he has extensive experience making PHP and JavaScript code clean and maintainable.

Portfolio

Freelance
CSS3, HTML5, Laravel, CodeIgniter, jQuery, Java, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS
mEgo, Inc.
YUI, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, HTML
Big Fun Bug
JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Chrome, Coda, MacOS

The most amazing...

...app I've made is a football simulator game and online community using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.

Work Experience

Web Developer

2009 - PRESENT
Freelance
  • Developed a high traffic Laravel API consumed from iPads, for a polling place check-in system in the United States.
  • Built LAMP-based custom sites using jQuery, Bootstrap, and frameworks such as CodeIgniter or Laravel.
  • Created a JavaScript-based executive charting dashboard framework for Opera Solutions using jQueryUI widget factory and HighCharts.
Technologies: CSS3, HTML5, Laravel, CodeIgniter, jQuery, Java, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS

Local Development Team Leader and Web Developer

2007 - 2009
mEgo, Inc.
  • Developed a site used to integrate different social network profiles.
  • Wrote an API to be consumed by a Flash client (xml based).
  • Worked intensively with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and HI5 APIs.
  • Oversaw code versioning, release, and QA workflows using SVN.
  • Worked with a team of QA experts coordinating QA tasks.
Technologies: YUI, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, HTML

Owner and Web Developer

2005 - 2006
Big Fun Bug
  • Developed sites using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.
  • Tweaked the PHPbb forum and integrated it with the site.
  • Collaborated with the implementation of a football match simulaton engine.
  • Modified a system that could execute high-load and intensive scripts in charge of doing the needed math to simulate the football matches.
  • Created and maintained administration and statistics pages.
Technologies: JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS

Web Developer and Server Administrator

2003 - 2005
Live Interactive SRL
  • Developed and maintained the API for a credit card billing system.
  • Built a high-traffic system for detecting the country of origin of a request.
  • Worked on creating HTML/CSS pages from complex designs in PSD files.
  • Provided server administration (Linux).
  • Worked with a team of server security experts.
Technologies: JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, HTML

Web Developer, FreeRADIUS Administration

2001 - 2003
Uniotel S.A.
  • Worked on several internal/administration pages using PHP and MySQL.
  • Configured and maintained FreeRADIUS.
  • Created a statistics pages for a VOIP app made using MRTG.
  • Wrote a script for log analysis and error alert system.
  • Provided server administration (Linux).
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP

Web Developer

2000 - 2001
elAgora.com
  • Created a website from scratch for a B2B platform.
  • Oversaw both implementation and design.
  • Maintained the servers (Linux).
  • Implemented a monthly billing system.
  • Worked in spiders (data mining) to offer goverment requests for companies to browse.
Technologies: MySQL, Perl

VOIP Market

A site I implemented where customers and vendors connect and trade voice-over-ip minutes.
Technologies used:
- Laravel
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- AWS: EC2, RDS
- Third party APIs for billing: Paypal, Stripe

Survey Toll

An end-user site and API I implemented for a survey tool.
- CodeIgniter first, then ported to Laravel
- jQuery and some AngularJS
- Bootstrap
- AWS: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasti-Cache, RDS (MySQL and Aurora), SES
- Wrote a RESTful API optimized with AWS's Elastic Beanstalk, Memcached, and Master/Slave architecture for the database.

Spend Intelligence Platform

JavaScript based executive charting dashboard framework using jQuery UI widgets and HighCharts (not available online).

The Hobbit Game

http://spidersofmirkwood.thehobbit.com/
HTML5 game using the ImpactJS framework.

Promotional Sites for the Machete Kills Movie

Three sites:
- http://memecreator.machetekills.com/
- http://memekiller.machetekills.com/
- http://anatomyofvengeance.machetekills.com/

Used jQuery and Bootsrap in the client side, and PHP and CodeIgniter framework in the server side.

Responsive design. Extensive use of Canvas object for a meme creator tool.

NADA University

Virtual training site, LAMP-based custom site development using jQuery and CodeIgniter/Zend framework.

Top Chef University

Virtual training site, LAMP based.

mEgo

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Hi5, etc. API development using CodeIgniter/Zend to be consumed by Flash or JavaScript clients.

National History Museum of Los Angeles

http://www.nhm.org/
Drupal-based development.

Languages

JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, Java, Perl, HTML, CSS

Frameworks

Bootstrap, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Chrome

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI, Lodash, Braintree API, PayPal API, Stripe API, Underscore.js, Shopify API, YUI, Vue

Tools

PhpBB, Recurly, Coda

Paradigms

REST, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Platforms

MacOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meteor, Shopify

Storage

MySQL, Memcached, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Other

Ajax

1997 - 2003

Bachelor Degree in Software Engineer

Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República - Uruguay

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