About me / CV

I’m a twenty-some year old geek hiding for a year in Stockholm. In my free time, I like studying Physics, meta-discussing trivialities and pretending I’m a Plone freelancer.

Personal data

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

Education

Other courses and awards

  • 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 very fluently. Very picky with grammatical errors.
  • English: Intermediate 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 and Varnish.
  • 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.

Experience

  • 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.
  • Researcher within the <e-UCM> group from the Complutense University of Madrid from December 2008 to February 2009.
    • Study 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.
    • 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. Technologies: Plone 3, ZEO, Pound and Varnish.
  • Active member of the Alqua editorial project since 2006.
    • Maintain the Alqua Plone web site (Plon-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.
    • Leaded 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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  1. antonio’s avatar

    Hola:
    He visto tu comentario en otro blog sobre Flock y lo he instalado en inglés (la versión 1.0.1). Pero ahora preferiría tenerlo en castellano, ¿qué me recomiendas que haga?
    Gracias por anticipado
    P.D. Trabajo con kubuntu 7.10