Diego Algorta Casamayou

Current

• Software Engineer at ActiveRain Corp.

Past

• Rails Developer at AREA 17
• Software Analyst/Designer/Developer at Banca de Quinielas de Montevideo
• Developer at Infobase S.R.L.

• OOP&D Teacher at Universidad ORT Uruguay

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Education

• Universidad ORT Uruguay

Recommended

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Summary

Working on Application and Web Development since 1997

Application Developer, Web Developer and System Administrator in several business applications and websites. Particularly interested in the Ruby language and Rails Web Development. Always interested in being part of nice groups of people and learning experiences.

Translator and responsible for the official Ruby Language website spanish translation (http://www.ruby-lang.org/es).

Interested in standards-compliant applications, free software and open source in general. Member of UYLUG (Uruguay Linux Users Group).

I have software development experience using technologies like: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, GeneXus, Java, Visual Basic, Subversion, Bug Traking (Trac, Collaboa, Retrospectiva, Mantis), Deployment Automation (Capistrano), Rake, RSpec, Rcov.

Systems administration has also been in my daily tasks using: Debian/Ubuntu, SUSE, OpenSSH, PostgreSQL, Slony I (Postgres replication), MySQL, nginx, mongrel, Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, Postfix, Shorewall, Samba, OpenLDAP, Jabberd, Bash scripting.

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Specialties:

Software architecture and development, Linux administration.

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  ActiveRain Corp.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year)

  I'm a software/web developer (Ruby on Rails) and systems administrator (Linux, PostgreSQL, etc). I've been doing a bunch of different tasks to keep the site running and adding new features here and there.

• Rails Developer

  AREA 17

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

  Ruby on Rails development for website Design 21, Social Design Network (http://www.design21sdn.com). Worked with a geographically distributed team.

• Software Analyst/Designer/Developer

  Banca de Quinielas de Montevideo

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

  December 2002 — June 2007 (4 years 7 months)

  I was responsible for the architecture/design and was part of the development team of a sports betting software supporting real time betting through a distributed network of more than 2000 POS and a webpage (www.supermatch.com.uy).
  
  I was the Systems Administrator for various of the linux servers involving PostgreSQL, Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, Shorewall, Samba, OpenLDAP, Jabberd, and much... much Bash scripting.
  
  Also worked on other minor projects there.

• Developer

  Infobase S.R.L.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year)

  * Responsible for in-house software development using GeneXus (http://www.genexus.com).
  * Windows 2000 and Linux Server Administrator for services such as web, proxy, ftp, mail, firewall and ACLs.
  * Scripting for TeleFORM (http://www.cardiff.com/products/teleform).

• OOP&D Teacher

  Universidad ORT Uruguay

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

  Object Oriented Programming & Design teacher using UML diagrams, Design Patterns, VisualBasic and Smalltalk programming languages.
  Also co-responsible on the development of the programming teaching plan/schedule for the Analista Programador career.

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Education

• Universidad ORT Uruguay

  Computer Science, Programming, Design, Leadership, Teamwork, Information Technology, 1996 — 2003

Additional Information

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Interests:

new technology, web development, open source, free software, linux, technology standards

Diego Algorta Casamayou’s Groups:

RubyArgentina, UYLUG

•    Ruby On Rails Community
•    Ruby on Rails Argentina
•    UyLUG
•    Uruguay on Rails
•    RUGUY - Ruby Uruguay

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