Pablo Fernandez

Kick ass and rock and roll!

Worked on various Ruby on Rails projects and improved company server infrastructure (backups, puppet, etc).

Developed end-to-end, load, failure, latency tests for various internal applications and for Gmail. Among other things:    Found and predicted a bug to be dangerous, three months latter stopped the development of 53 projects.    Increased the realism of a set of tests unveiling at least 3 potentially destructive bugs in internal CRM.    Developed a JavaScript mock of the Gmail server to speed up and stabilize UI tests. Created web application to keep track of quality metrics of other products in Djan

Developed Asterisk module to manage users and tasks. Working without a flaw since day 1 due to heavy testing. Developed gateway between an custom XML protocol and Asterisk’s Manager Interface. Added real-time support for agents to Asterisk. Bug: 5143. Maintained around 10 complex Asterisk deployments with more than 300 phone terminals, including network design, installation, backup, remote troubleshooting, testing (using SIPp), etc.

Developed various small web applications from design to deployment for various clients including: URL shorteners, quote managers, scripts, etc. Sustainability/viability study of free instant messaging solutions.

Design, set up and deployment of various Plone web sites, one with more than 40 editors requiring custom products. Developed Plone products for:    Displaying documents stored in other locations (like a symlink)    Speeding up the addition of keywords to documents.    Embedding external web sites in a Plone web site.    Handling quotes including a portlet for displaying.

Developed of a video editor for set top box using C++, Qt, KDE, transcode, mplayer and Xine.

Developed web sites for a painter, a marble shop and an elitist party organizer. The first one still running today only with some additions.

Deployed various Linux and OpenBSD servers. Developed GUI file usage monitoring application, called KSamStat, for Samba to be able to replace a Novell Netware server. Developed a web app to administrate a physical library of CD-ROMs, magazines, books and other educational material.

Installed a Linux firewall using ipchains. Developed web administration tool for it in C using CGI in Apache (yes, a web app in C, crazy days!).