Nizar Khalife Iglesias
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Nizar has been making software professionally for over ten years. He has learned several platforms and naturally found himself in leadership positions, though he doesn't think of himself primarily as a manager. He is very comfortable communicating and prides himself on an easy interactive style with a touch of humor and a knack for explaining things to non-developers.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Chrome, Terminal, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Git, Bash, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've coded is a web service that provides soccer data and news content to web, iOS, and Android clients.
Work Experience
Teacher
Ironhack
- Improved existing and created new course material for Web developers.
- Organized and spoke at local community workshop events.
Web Developer
Nobox
- Introduced version control via Git into the team's workflow.
- Improved architecture of the internal PHP framework and surrounding tools.
- Built two large web projects that tracked soccer statistics and new content with Node.js.
- Maintained a second screen TV experience with a large chat feature and components in Python and Node.js.
- Served as technical contact point for clients and partners.
- Built several promotional campaigns with social and gamification features in PHP's Laravel framework.
- Created an internal Facebook ad platform with PHP's Symfony framework.
iOS Developer and Research Assistant
ARBIMON
- Built an iOS app that enabled recording of animals in the wild using an iPod touch.
- Created documentation for the app including a comprehensive user guide, and supported biologists in their use of the app.
- Introduced version control using Subversion to the team's workflow.
- Helped design revamped database schema for automated recording of field data.
Web Developer
University of Puerto Rico
- Built a student council voting system in PHP and MySQL.
- Built a public campus crime log single-page app in PHP and MySQL using raw JavaScript HTTP request and DOM APIs.
- Deployed content updates to the university Web site.
Experience
Combo Breaker
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Objective-C, Bash, Python, SQL
Frameworks
Laravel, Express.js, Chrome, Hapi.js, Ampersand.js, Django
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery, Moment.js, South, Bitly API, Vimeo API, Twitter API, Facebook API
Tools
Git, NPM, Browserify, Tower, Terminal, Sublime Text, Composer, Chrome Developer Tools
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Functional Programming
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, PostgreSQL
Other
Module Development, Coding
Platforms
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
University of Puerto at Rio Piedras - San Juan
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