About me / CV

I’m a twenty-some year old nerd geek hiding in Europe. In my “free” time, I like studying Physics, meta-discussing trivialities and pretending I’m a Plone freelance consultant, as well as riding my bike, telling (really) bad jokes, cooking (salty and greasy) international food and practising barbarian rituals with (fake) blood and all.

Personal data

• Name: Israel Saeta Pérez.
• Live in: Europe, Earth.
• Contact: israel.saeta (at) dukebody (dot) com. Spam bots, please, please don’t read the previous email address… Thanks! :D

Education

• Studying Physics as a Séneca student at Universidad de Barcelona right now.
• Studied Engineering Physics as an Erasmus student at KTH, Stockholm, during the 2009/2010 course.
• Studied a Degree in Physics at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) from 2005 to 2009.
• Science and Nature High School Degree at IES Alameda de Osuna. (2005)

Other courses, conferences, fake trophies and awards

• Attended the Plone European Symposium 2010 in Sorrento, Italy, working on tiles development.
• Attended the Plone Cathedral Sprint 2010, focusing on Plone 4 documentation work.
• Attended the Free Culture X Conference (2010) in Washington, D.C.
• Attended the Free Culture Forum 2009 in Barcelona.
• Speaker and student in the summer course “Desaprendiendo la propiedad intelectual” (Unlearning Intellectual Property), held in Cáceres, Spain, 2008.
• Premio Nacional de Bachillerato 2004-2005 (National Baccalaureate Award).
• Premio Extraordinario de Bachillerato 2004-2005 (Extraordinary Baccalaureate Award).
• Comunidad de Madrid Excellency Scholarship Holder (2005).
• Silver medal at the national phase of the XXXVI International Physics Olympiad (2005).

Languages

• Spanish: Native tongue. Speak, read and write it fluently. Very picky with grammatical errors.
• English: Advanced reading, writing and speaking. Specialized in technical texts (see translating experience below).
• Swedish: Basic knowledge. Can live in Stockholm. :)
• Programming: Basic C++, PHP and Javascript; advanced Python and standards-compliant (X)HTML & CSS.

Technical skills

• Zope (2 and 3) and Plone developer. See experience below.
• Worked with SVN, GIT and Mercurial version control systems. Set-up Mercurial and SVN remote servers, for Alqua and Zassh.com, respectively.
• Deployed Apache, lighttpd, Squid, Varnish and bla, bla, bla.
• Windows and Linux power user. Installed, configured and worked with several Linux distributions, including Gentoo, Archlinux, Debian and Ubuntu; and don’t fear any others. Linux From Scratch anyone?

Experience

• Google Summer of Code 2010 student, working with Plone on Core tiles development, mentored by Martin Aspeli.
• Esporadic web developer at Webworks Sweden and Betahaus since September 2009. Pair programming to develop and deploy websites with custom content-types, workflows and themes, using Plone.
• Plone Editorial Board Member since October 2008.
  • Garden the Developing for Plone documentation section, with more than 100 articles, reviewing new submissions, writing some articles and reorganizing existing content.
  • Coordinated the efforts to integrate any changes introduced in the product by accepted PLIPs in the official documentation for Plone 3.3 and 4.0.
• Researcher within the <e-UCM> group from the Complutense University of Madrid from December 2008 to February 2009.
  • Studied the benefits of virtual environments and video games in learning processes.
  • Helped to manage a C++ introductory programming course and evaluate its students.
• Worked from July 2008 to the end of October 2008 for Zassh.com, a dot-com company which developed a sports-related social networking website powered by Plone.
  • Re-structured the development environment from a “custom skin layer” one to a buildout based one, with several file-system products under SVN control, and a Trac instance to organize tasks (or at least try to).
  • Programmed an utility to upload, retrieve and modify videos in YouTube using the GData API and Zope 3.
  • Programmed a web-based system for the site to organize sport competitions based on SQLAlchemy queries.
  • Deployed the site using lighttpd as a light web server to redirect requests to Zope, and Squid as a reverse-proxy.
• Manage and develop the institutional site of the Students Central Delegation of the UCM. Using: Plone 3, ZEO, Pound and Varnish.
• Member of the Alqua editorial project 2006-2010.
  • Maintained the Alqua Plone web site (Plone-based) and communication & marketing-lead in Spain.
  • Programmed the current Cheetah-based template system.
  • Participated in round-table discussions and conferences on this project: “Unlearning the Intellectual property”, held in Cáceres, Spain (2008) and “Free Software in the University”, held in Madrid (2009).
• Participated in Mozilla Hispano, the Mozilla community for Spanish speakers.
  • Programmed a l10n QA tool targeted to non-techie users under the Django framework: mini-litmus.
  • Provided support to average users in forums, write news articles and documentation from July 2007 to December 200.
• Lead Flock’s community l10n efforts together with Stefan Splewako and Mike Dosik from early 2008 to December 2008.
  • Lead existing localization teams and helped to consolidate new ones.
  • Translated technical texts, including the browser and some web pages about release notes.

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