Juan Vilar Sanchis

Computer and Software Engineer.

Obtained a Computer Engineering degree at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Valencia, Spain) plus a year abroad in Rome, in the Universitá degli studi La Sapienza di Roma, via Erasmus Programme.

Currently developing patent number WO2022029351A1 for the creation of an automatic piano tuner. You can find more information about this project in this link.

• Created a front-end application using angular + Ionic Framework that connected via Bluetooth to an Arduino device.
• Designed the circuit board and circuit frame for printing using fritzing.
• Managed a small team of 5 people and directed the project.
• Ported bottleneck parts of JavaScript code to Rust and C++ using WASM.

Brief collaboration with Vitaance, a startup company focused on wellbeing for employees:

• Successfully implemented a TDD based back-end strategy for testing using Nest.js and jest.

I worked as a Part Time Associate Teacher at ESIC University, teaching over 50 students in the arts of Wordpress , HTML, CSS and Vanilla JavaScript. As part of my duties, I designed the course’s curriculum and graded students based on their exam results and performance for two consecutive courses.

As a full-time consultant in Sopra Steria, I worked for the French national GRDF as the person in charge of all issues and incidents related to the production environments of an app / system that took care of the update of gas counters for clients in their gas energy network (over 11 million users). As the Responsable MCO (Maintenance des conditions operátionnelles) I:

• Coordinated the work of 20+ workers (developers and business analysts), prepared Daily meetings.
• Used Jira extensively to synchronize our efforts and keep track of time management for each developer.
• Took care of the production related issues (mainly database and data manipulation errors) and assigned tasks to available resources.

As my company grew, I had to change my role from developer to project management and operations planning. As an operations officer, I:

• Engaged with clients to prepare budgets and updates on their projects.
• Worked with a network of 300+ developers to build development teams and assign them to new projects.I Heavily relied on tools like Trello, Jira, Gitlab to coordinate with teams of up to 6 independent contractors.
• Managed existing software projects, making sure deadlines were met within budget.
• Team-led for most of the projects and was responsible for git code reviews.
• Routinely evangelized TDD good practices among my developer base.
• Extensively used Adobe XD to create powerful mocks for product backlogs, being heavily involved in the design and implementation process.
• Designed the microservice architecture for MVPs and prototypes of my clients.

I started my own company as a freelance developer. I offered my services to clients who needed software consultancy and software development.

• I used BPMN to help my clients deliver true IT specifications and rapid clickable prototypes.
• Developed endpoints using Node.Js, Typescript, MariaDB and other NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB, firebase and Amazon Web Services (lambda, EC2, S3).
• Developed hardware and electrical schematics and solutions using Fritzing, Raspberry Pi and arduino.
• Developed angular.js front-end applications under ionic framework.
• Developed endpoints using C# and .net that communicated with front-end angular applications. 
• Extensively used TDD in back-end using Junit and front-end TDD using Karma + Jasmine.
• Coded firmware parts for Arduino using C++ / Arduino language.
• Developed applications using Python and worked in Django Projects.
• Worked with Joomla and WordPress developing marketing sites for clients
• Used Brownie suite to deploy SmartContracts in the Ethereum blockchain.

Manager of JFLATS. A real estate asset management startup company with its own software where I:

• Managed real-estate assets worth over 5 million euros.
• Coordinated tenants in and out of the properties as well as cleaning and maintenance staff.
• Managed a team of three developers and led software projects using PHP, JQUERY and row-DS.
• Designed new software features by talking with key stakeholders.
• Talked to providers, managed bills and data income analysis for landlords and owners

As a part of the Talentum Startup programme by Telefónica. I worked in an entrepreneur company focused on new music bands. Bandness (the name of the startup) was a social network for indie bands to sell their songs online. I:

• Mocked design psds in HTML  + CSS.
• Worked extensively as a full stack web developer using PHP and Symfony

During this internship at ITENE while in university, I developed small mini sites for each of the company’s departments and projects

• Developed websites using Joomla for each department that needed marketing.
• Developed simple tools to interact with their Navision system.
• Acted as a web consultant with other departments of the company, filling in technical details when needed.

A small project backed by a large computer consumer product retailer. I developed the company's website as well as its internal internet structure and worked for them as a part-time freelance website developer using Joomla.

I worked as a freelancer developing web pages for small companies, developing their websites using mainly Joomla CMS , WordPress and vanilla HTML/CSS development that paid for my costs while studying at university.