Patxi Pierce

Backend Programmer

Info:

Full name "Patxi" Pierce Becker.

Place of birth Austin, Texas, USA.

Date of birth 15th of Noviember, 1983.

Nationalities U.S.A. / Chilean / Spanish.

Marital status Single.

Current Location Utrecht, Netherlands.

Language skills:

  • EnglishNative

  • SpanishNative

  • PortugueseIntermediate

  • FrenchBasic

  • DutchBasic

Experience:

Eco-Movement April '21 to Now

Senior developer

Development of features such as API connections, database optimizations, Google Cloud administration.

agap2 Netherlands February '19 to April '21

IT consultant, Senior PHP developer

Working with cloud based archtecture, CI / CD, TDD, Symfony, Laravel and Drupal. Updating and upgrading legacy PHP applications and APIs to current standards. DevOps using open source solutions.

PatxiPierce.com March '11 to February 19

Self-Employed consultant, software developer and maintainer

Multinational clients with a rich spectrum of software. Server and database migrations, refactoring. Application architecture and development. Product optimization, accountability, data scalability and plotting. Consulting and working with developers and managers of diverse backgrounds.

Hi-media (now Ad UX) October '10 to January '11

Trafficker in performance marketing

Optimizing user tracking technology in different web environments, ad media/rich media manipulation. The maintenance and tracking of different commission models (PPS, PPC, PPL).

ZANOX (now Awin) March '09 to November '10

Technical Sales Engineer

Implementation of tracking technology in diverse online environments and devices, ad media and sale operation management. The maintenance and tracking using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), API or Web Service development and the eventual Ad Media design or technical improvement.

MIVA Inc. March '06 to September '08

Implementation technician

Setting up contextual adds in several editorial web pages. Working with several server side scripting languages such as ASP, PHP and JavaScript (including several libraries an frameworks), databases and markup languages.

Freelancer January '06 to February '06

Web Developer

Self-Employed. Creation, development, positioning and maintenance of web pages. English / Spanish translation of real estate and legal documents.

Xerberos S.L. November '04 to December '05

Intern - Web Developer

PHP programmer, design and development of the site. Image and audio manipulation on different media. Network maintenance, setup, surveillance, and repair. Apache setup and configuration in Linux systems.

Training:

  • November '04 – December '04

    Open Source Network Operation, Xerberos.S.L. Madrid, Spain.

  • May '03 – October '03

    Advanced photography course. UCV, Caracas, Venezuela.

  • March '93 – December '01

    Colegio Rubén Darío, Santiago, Chile.

Interests and notes:

I'm interested in language, nonverbal communication, natural language processing, semiotics, cybernetics, cryptography, data compression, artificial intelligence, neural networks, mathematics and brutalism.

Knowledge:

Job titles

Programmer

Software Developer

Backend Developer

System Administrator

Network Administrator

Data Analyst

Skills

Network Configuration

Server Configuration

Load Balancing

Penetration Testing

System Security

Debugging

Backend Development

Command Line

Programming languages

JavaScript

Bash Scripting (Proof)

PHP

Python (Proof)

Databases

MySQL

SQLite

SQL

PostgreSQL

Paradigms

Multitier Architecture

DevOps

API Integration

Software Architecture

Software Engineering

Object Oriented Programming

Software Versioning

Functional Programming

Test Driven Development

Agile software development

Waterfall

Social skills

Teamwork

Decision Making