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Zerquix18/README.md

Hi there πŸ‘‹ I'm Luis and I ❀️️ coding

This page contains a general overview of what I've worked on over the years.

🌎 Where to find me?

LinkedIn | Website | dev.to | Stackoverflow | Gitcoin | Twitter

πŸ‘” Work Experience

Growth Acceleration Partners (current)

  • In a cross-team collaboration, developed the Expense Tracking feature for the ZenBusiness mobile app. This caused a 10x increase in active users who could now categorize their expenses on the go. As part of the GraphQL layer, I was one of the main links between the Fintech and Mobile teams.
  • Developed and implemented an "Onboarding" feature to improve user engagement with ZB$ Pro. Designed and architected the front-end while ensuring seamless integration with the backend.
  • Architected and built a free trial feature which allowed users to get the first month for free to try ZB$ Pro. Over a 100 people subscribed to the free trial within the first week.
  • Avid bug fixer: Complimented and responsible for helping solve over a 100 triage tickets.

MethodExists

MethodExists is a web development company based in Calgary, AB, Canada. As a full stack engineer, I worked on several projects from the original idea to production. Some of those projects are:

In Line Pigging
  • Description: A website to help with the process of pigging pipelines in Canada.
  • Purpose: Provide trackers with tools to do their job, including maps, calculations, reports, metadata and statistics.
  • Released: 2019
  • Things learned: AWS CDK/CDK/SES/S3 Google Maps/Mapbox/Leaflet, React hooks/context API, Node.js (including Buffer, dgram, express), PWA concepts, and a lot about how pigging works.
  • Outcome: In use.
ALTS Canada
  • Description: A multi purpose simulation application, using a map to simulate things happening.
  • Purpose: To be used to simulate emergencies and supply chains.
  • Released: 2019
  • Things learned: TypeScript, Turf, Semantic UI
  • Outcome: In private use and being demoed to this day.
Sure Fuel
  • Description: A fuel delivery app where users would open a map and request fuel for a vehicle.
  • Purpose: To be released as an Uber for fuel.
  • Released: 2019
  • Things learned: React Native, Firebase
  • Outcome: Discontinued.
Deal Deck
  • Description: A website for fundraising for organizations.
  • Released: 2019.
  • Things learned: Micro-frontends, AWS CloudFormation/DynamoDB/Cognito/CodePipeline
  • Outcome: Discontinued.

πŸ‘ Personal Projects

These are projects I've built by myself and which have taught me valuable skills.

  • Description: My very first major project at 14 years old. An application that allowed the user to upload images, update them at specific coordinates, share to Twitter when they were updated. It supported multiple languages, thenes, users.
  • Purpose: Use the final images on websites so there would be no need to use Photoshop or CSS.
  • Stack: PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, some minimal Javascript
  • Released: 2013
  • Things learned: Git, PHP, Twitter API, User Roles
  • Outcome: Used by the community for a while, then discontinued.

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  • Description: A Twitter clone in which people could send "puffs". Mainly targeted at Club Penguin users. You could follow people, see their "puffs", and chat in real time.
  • Purpose: To be used by the community.
  • Stack: Custom design with Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL
  • Released: 2015
  • Things learned: jQuery, How to make a Twitter clone, how to make a real time chat
  • Outcome: Eventually discontinued. Lost the source code.
  • Description: A web app that allowed users to record themselves or upload an audio, add effects to it, and then share it on Twitter.
  • Purpose: Extend Twitter's functionality, like Twitpic did before Twitter didn't allow images.
  • Stack: PHP, MySQL, Custom CSS, SoX, ffmpeg
  • Released: 2015
  • Things learned: Twitter Cards/API in general, licensing, SoX, ffmpeg, Laravel, Stripe
  • Outcome: Eventually discontinued.
  • Description: A web app that collects memes from several sources and ranks them by how fast they're getting popular. You get to customize your sources, how to sort the result and what type of media you're after (Images, videos, gifs, articles).
  • Purpose: To be released as a tool but also as an entertainment website.
  • Stack: PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Bootstrap then Materialize, jQuery then React
  • Released: 2017
  • Things learned: Reddit API, Facebook API, Materialize, React, solified Laravel, MySQL 5.6, Stripe with Elements
  • Outcome: Still lives to this day. Source code remains closed since it is still my little baby.
  • Description: A website to display statistics for COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic.
  • Stack: React, Bulma, Gatsby
  • Released: 2020
  • Things learned: Gatsby
  • Outcome: Discontinued.
  • Description: Using the HURDAT, a website that allows you to visualize hurricanes in the atlantic basin, with features like filtering by year, intensity of area, and charts for pressure/wind speed.
  • Purpose: Be used as a tool for amateur people and meteorologists.
  • Stack: Laravel, React/TypeScript
  • Released: 2020
  • Things learned: More about how hurricanes work.
  • Outcome: Discontinued.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Open Source Contributions

Things I made open source or contributed to on Github. These are not all, but the ones relevant enough.

πŸ’° Bounties

These are also open source contributions, but they were part of a bounty and I was paid for those contributions. All those happened on Gitcoin.

πŸ“ Articles I've written

πŸŽ“ Education

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science from Universidad del Caribe, graduated magna cum laude
  • Certified AWS Cloud Architect

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    Heartbleed POC translated to PHP

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    EstadΓ­sticas de covid-19 en RD

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