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Projects

These are some of the projects both professional and open source that I have worked on during the last few years.

I’m currently partially available for freelance contracts, if you think I might be able to help, please get in touch.

autofiscal.com

July 2009 to present day, Founder

More information coming soon…

Open Source: Just Documents

September 2009 to present day, creator.

A content management system where everything that can be edited is a document. Written in Ruby on Rails, the project is still in testing stages (although you’re using it right now!).

The Cosmonaut Shop

May/June 2009, development and hosting.

Online shop for the innovative Creative Commons film project The Cosmonaut. Designed by Vostok the shop is presented as a simple single page yet uses a mixture of Javascript and backend techniques to handle the more complex process of a complete purchase in one step.

FloresFrescas.com

January 2009 to present day, development, maintenance, and hosting.

Fresh flowers delivered to your door in Spain. The project was originally created in 2004, but in 2009 Vostok was commissioned to redesign the entire site. I handled all the development including the replacement of the back-office order management system.

Vostok

October 2008 to present day, lead developer.

An elite team lead by Javier Cañada providing interaction design services. I provide development support.

Job and Talent

August 2008 to October 2008, Development Support

Social networking combined with job seeking. I provided support in the initial stages of backend and searching architecture design.

Planetaki

September 2007 to present day, development and hosting.

Read news from multiple websites in the same place as easily as possible.
Founded by Javier Cañada, one of the most widely acclaimed interaction designers in Spain.
Developed in Ruby on Rails.

Simon Yorke’s recordplayer.com

July 2008, development and hosting.

Simon’s stunning Record Players are the focus of the website which tries to be as simple and clear yet informative as possible. Built in Ruby on Rails and designed by the company itself.

Documentos FAES

From 2007 to present day, development and maintenance.

Ruby on Rails compliment to the main FAES website for their document collection. Multilingual using Gettext and my translate_columns plugin. Includes flash video streaming capabilities.

Bandwagon.co.uk

August 2005 to March 2007, lead developer

Portal for music bands and small record labels, produced from the ground up in PHP and MySQL. My role on the project since its initiation was based on the backend modeling that dealt with the community and media content.

The website provided bands the ability to promote their own content that can be listened to online, or downloaded to a mobile. Sadly, the service is no longer maintained and is not reachable.