Federico J. Álvarez Valero

Experience

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  Telefónica I+D

  Feb 2001 - Feb 2003

  QA Engineer

  I worked as a testing engineer in a mixed COBOL/Java environment.

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  Speccy.org

  Jun 2002 - now

  System Administrator / Webmaster

  I co-manage speccy.org's hosting as sysadmin, keeping installed software updated and tuned (Wordpress, PhpBB, Dokuwiki). Also designed, developed and deployed some of the hosted sites.

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  Orbital BBDO

  Feb 2003 - Dec 2004

  Analyst / Developer

  I worked developing (and sometimes defining) microsites for online advertisement campaigns, both in the backend (PHP, MySQL) and frontend sides (Javascript, Flash, HTML, CSS).

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  MagazineZX

  Jul 2003 - Mar 2009

  Publisher and editor
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  20minutos

  Dec 2004 - Feb 2016

  CTO

  I started building 20minutos CMS and website from scratch in 2004. Since then, I led a team in charge of the website maintenance and evolution, developing new web and mobile projects for the company.

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  Google LaunchPad Madrid

  Jul 2015 - Jul 2015

  Technical Mentor

  Helping start-ups to develop their business, trying to understand their proposals, answering their questions and helping them to identify and avoid common mistakes.

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  Bitban Technologies S.L.

  Apr 2016 - now

  Software Architect
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  Retromaniac Magazine

  Nov 2016 - now

  Contributor

  Retro and indie videogames analysis and in-depth reviews