Who am I?

I'm Boris Ballester, a young guy from a little paradise called Canary Islands and located in Spain. I've been surrounded by technology all my life and is one of my passions along with digital art and creating things. For me, doing almost anything is not impossible. It's just a matter of time!

My career objectives

  • Earning experience as computer engineer in a laboral environment.
  • Learn the workflow of an IT enterprise.
  • Mastering my skills or learn some new ones
  • At last but not least: do my best!

My skills

Through the years I've been in touch with many programming languages but, in the present, I feel comfortable with the following:

  • XAMP apps
  • MEAN stack
  • SCRUM agile dev
  • Git/Gitflow
  • Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
  • HTML,CSS & Javascript

Those were the ones that I use the most but there are other programming languages that I can use to make awesome things: C, C++, C#, .NET, Java. and to a lesser extent Prolog, Ruby and Python. I just only need a little adaptation period to switch languages.

My education

  • Computer Engineering Degree: Computation and Artificial intelligence
    • Universidad de La Laguna[2011 - 2016]
  • Professional Training: Interactive Applications Development in 4th generation environments and CASE tools
    • IES Domingo Pérez Minik[2009 - 2011]

My complementary education

Most of my complementary education is heavily based on computers and technology:

  • Introduction to Web Development using CAKEPHP
    • Fundación General de la Universidad de La Laguna [10 hours] [2013]
  • Google Actívate: Developing Mobile Apps
    • Universidad Complutense de Madrid [40 hours] [2014]
  • Google Actívate: Cloud Computing
    • Escuela de Organización Industrial [40 hours] [2014]
  • Google Actívate: Introduction to Web Design
    • Instituto de Economía Internacional [40 hours] [2014]

Besides that, I have also knowledge in other areas like e-commerce, marketing and business:

  • Google Actívate: Web Analytics
    • Escuela de Organización Industrial [40 hours] [2014]
  • Google Actívate: Basic Marketing
    • Interactive Advertising Bureau [40 hours] [2014]
  • LaunchTF: Startup's pre-acceleration program
    • Fundación General de la Universidad de La Laguna [70 hours] [2015]
  • E-commerce: an alternative for sales
    • Cámara de Comercio de Santa Cruz de Tenerife [4 hours] [2016]

Languages that I spoke

Mother tongue
Spanish
Other languages
English (C2, EFSET English Certificate)

English

Self-assessment of language skills

Understanding

Listening
B2 Independent User.
Reading:
B2 Independent User.

Speaking

Spoken interaction:
B2 Independent User.
Spoken production:
B2 Independent User.

Writing

Writing:
B2 Independent User.

Work experience

  • Freelance
    San Cristóbal de La Laguna Since 2010
    Logo design, custom websites, Wordpress, e-commerce solutions with Woocommerce/Prestashop, private tutoring…
  • Raona
    Barcelona [February 2017 - November 2018]
    APIs and intranets development using Sharepoint and Sharepoint Online using C#, ASP .NET, ASP MVC, Entity Framework, MySQL, React, AngularJS, Express…
  • Adamo
    Barcelona [November 2018 - Present]
    Maintenance and microservices development in Docker using Node JS, ECMAScript 6, Handlebars, Domain Driven Design, Event storming...

Don't worry, I'll show you some of my works.

Logo design and digitazion

I guess this is a bit self-explanatory. I made all the graphic stuff in this website except the icons. Thanks to FontAwesome for the CSS icons, they're awesome! Below you can watch some logo examples I've made in the past.

Bogui JS (2015)

This one was a little experiment I made with my friend Guillermo Rivero. It's a simple online image editor for black and white images using JQuery and JQuery UI. You can check the project here but it's in spanish. Sorry!

Simple CSS DSL (2014)

It's a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for writing CSS, 100% done in Javascript with JISON. It's similar to SASS and LESS and all that kind of CSS pre-processors that exist nowadays. It was made while I was at the university with my friend Guillermo Rivero. You can check the project and get more info here.

Tenerife Trending Topic (2014-2015)

E-commerce website using Prestashop. I made all the geeky stuff: free basic logo, custom bootstrap template, web server configuration and Prestashop installation along some Prestashop modules modifications. Finally in 2016 I did the migration to WooCommerce but I got nothing to do with the new design. You can check their website here.

Recblock (2016)

This one was my final career project. It's a Moodle PHP plug-in that serves as a recommendation block based on user's playing type and learning style. The plug-in and code is available in this GitHub repository. For more detailed info about the project you can check its thesis.

ATECA (2009-current)

They are one of the referents at Canary Islands in terms of industrial services. I have made many works with them as computer technician, other ones include:

  • Logo digitazion and creation of their first corporate webpage (2010)
  • Custom Google Sheets template and english showcase presentation
  • New corporate website using responsive design and HTML5 (2016).

Chicharro Tattoo Gallery (2017)

E-commerce website I'm making for Chicharro Tattoo Gallery, Diego Mena's tattoo studio. It uses Wordpress+Woocommerce with a custom template. I'm still working in this but it will be posted as soon as I finish. You can visit the site here.

Bello Neo (2018)

This Wordpress site got hacked. I proceed to do cleaning, restoration and security audit after it happenned. I did some CSS changes and added a new language too. You can check their website here.

Microgreen (2018)

Website made with Wordpress for Microgreen Project, canary pioneers in the use and cultivation of spirulina. For more information on spirulina or the project do not hesitate to visit their web-site.

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Do you want more?

If the answer is: YES! You can check out my github repositories for more code: