Web developer at Popego
Argentina
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Santiago Coffey’s Summary
Software developer with experience in web applications. Particularly interested in web startups. Ability to adapt to different frameworks, especially for C, Java, Python and PHP projects.
Santiago Coffey’s Specialties:
C, Java, Python, PHP, Javascript, XML, HTML, CSS, SQL, Apache, Linux, Smalltalk, Perl, Haskell
Santiago Coffey’s Experience
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Web Developer
Popego
(Internet industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Popego is an Internet company building AI technology aimed at discovering user interests based on the semantic content of their web activity. The product features a web service aggregator and a recommendation engine. The aggregator allows users to gather their public information (available via web services APIs or plain HTML documents) in a single place. The recommendation engine provides a more meaningful web experience by finding those daily gems that are relevant to each user according to his or her interests. Following the semantic web trends, Popego is also developing tools for semantic analysis of web content. Try Popego at http://www.popego.com
Popego was finalist at world class conferences such as:
- TechCrunch 50 2008 Conference in San Francisco, CA, the most important in the Internet industry: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/presenter.php?presenter=64
- LeWeb Paris '08, in Paris, France http://www.lewebparis.com/2008/11/leweb08-startup.html
- SxSW Web Awards 2009 http://sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/
- Webware Awards 2009 http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/about/browsing.html
So far, some of my main tasks as a developer have been:
- Dealing with the aggregation of some of the currently supported web services
- Designing, implementing and testing classes in all different tiers of a MVC-oriented web application
- Programming text processing algorithms for the semantic analysis of web documents
- Providing services (including AJAX APIs) to retrieve model data
- Programming client-side interaction in Javascript
- Coping with high scalability and availability requirements such as web servers having 7500 requests per second
- Tackling the engineering challenges of building a large-scale web application that satisfies quality attributes such as: efficiency, modularity, reusability, mantainability and extensibility -
Teaching Assistant
ITBA
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Teaching Assistant of Basic Computer Organization course (Assembler programming, introduction to programming) during 4 terms. Developed a Z80 simulator. Currently, Teaching Assistant of Behavior-Based Robotics course.
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Software Developer
Coffey & Asociados
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — Present (7 years)
Experience in setting up web content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla! and Drupal, and other web platforms such as Moodle and phpMyAdmin. Also developed proprietary modules for client-specific needs.
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Software Developer
ITBA
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Junior programmer. Application tester. Gained experience in Java development using Eclipse and related frameworks including Maven, Hibernate, Tomcat, Subversion, JUnit, Swing, J2EE, Log4J, etc. Also worked on documentation and tutorial making.
Santiago Coffey’s Education
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Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
BSc (Eng) , IT, Computer Science, Software Engineering , 2003 — 2008
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Instituto Santa Brígida
Bachiller en Ciencias y Letras , Spanish, English, French, Physics, Maths, History , 1998 — 2002
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Santiago Coffey’s Interests:
semantic web, artificial intelligence, robotics, web 2.0, web development, web startups, internet, programming, interface design, human-computer interfaces, systems architecture, z80, computers, mac, linux, open source, python, java, british rock, argentinian rock, progressive rock, classical music, cinema, independent cinema, photography, comics, renaissance art, modern art, british literature, argentina, ireland, uk, france, math, technology, science, engineering
Santiago Coffey’s Groups:
ITBA
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Perfiles IT
Santiago Coffey’s Honors:
Second best average in Argentina in International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma results (2002).
Awarded "Sisters of Mercy" Gold Medal (2002) in recognition for academic merit.
Received a full scholarship for studying Computer Engineering at ITBA.
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