Manuel Palenciano

web development

Web Development

I am a Ruby and Rails developer since 2006. My first professional project was on 2007 using Rails v1. I also enjoy using Sinatra and Rack for developing APIs and middle-wares.

System Administration and Deployments

I have been responsible for:

Contact

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Work

2014 – 2018

BetVictor

Gibraltar

Gambling & Casinos

One of the world’s largest independent bookmakers and an industry leader in betting innovation with customers from over 150 different countries.

I worked for the team responsible to develop and maintain the company's Desktop and Mobile websites, using Javascript for the frontend and Rails for the backend.

Casino

For the first two years I worked in the casino vertical team, implementing and supporting third party online games.

Sport-book

For the last two years I worked in the sport-book vertical team, adding new features and maintaining the betting system for all the different sports supported.

2010 – 2013

Crisalix Labs

Barcelona Spain

A 3D plastic surgery web simulator. At Crisalix I had two rolls: Ruby developer and SysAdmin.

As a Ruby developer created and maintained Rails and Sinatra applications, wrote a HTTP API with Sinatra, and developed the payment gateway.

As a SysAdmin migrated the whole applications stack from various data centers, configuring dedicated servers, VLAN, Nginx, MySQL server, Redis, Memcached, external and internal monitoring, deployments with Capistrano, Upstart, log-rotation, etc.

2009 – 2010

Travelevdokia

Malaga Spain

A tour operator for the Russian market in Costa del Sol. I made a back-end in Rails to manage translations and their hotel seasonal offers. Also made sites for hotels they had deals with. These sites were mainly static content, just the order-entry form needed dynamic content (offers) and persistence, so I chose Sinatra with DataMapper… lots of fun.

2007 – 2009

Tapas in a Box

Malaga Spain, Birmingham UK

An English company that sells Spanish food for the UK market. It was my first fully hosted Rails (v1) application. I developed the front-end, back-office, order-entry, invoicing and on-line payments. I also did a simple CMS and a CRM using Highrise's API.

2002 – 2006

Maki Visual

Chicago USA

A partnership with a graphic designer, where I began with web programming. We made some sites for friends and relatives like restaurants, weddings, apartments for rent and anything we could find. I was using PHP but wanted something else, and soon found Ruby and Rails during 2005.

1992 – 2000

JBA SOFTWARE PLC

Birmingham UK, Chicago USA

The company where I first became a programmer during the 90s. JBA was the creator of System 21, an ERP software solution operated on IBM's AS/400. I worked in the support and development teams, using RPG, CL and DB2.