Carlos Granados

Joined the company as the third developer on board and helped it grow to a multi million business providing services to more than 100 airports around the world. Initially joined the company as Senior full stack developer and soon was promoted to Software Team Manager, where he led the whole development team (while continuing to act as a senior developer) until the end of 2018 when it became evident that he could not continue performing both roles as the team was growing very fast, the team was about 20 people strong when he changed roles. he then moved on to lead the SRE team where they make sure that the site is running smoothly and without any glitches. His current team is 6 people strong. He has also helped implement a fully automated QA/CI/CD process. Technologies used: PHP, Symfony, NodeJS, Ractive, React, MongoDb, Android, Google Cloud, Docker, Behat, CircleCI, Cypress, Selenium IDE, Kubernetes.

Developed FastDebug, a drop-in replacement for Xdebug (PHP's main debugging tool) which is fully compatible yet it is much, much faster. FastDebug is currently in private beta and will be commercially launched some time next year. More information here: https://fastdebug.io/
Technologies used: C++, PHP, Laravel, Docker

Co-founded and led the development of Clippingbook.com, the visual search engine. Technologies used: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Amazon AWS, Redis, Varnish, REST, HTML5, AngularJS, Behat, Protractor. Led a development team of four persons (two backend, two frontend). Developed the initial concept for the service and coordinated all development with marketing and management teams.

Co-founded and led the development of Babelcube.com,  a platform which connects authors and translators, allowing them to publish their translated books globally. Technologies used: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Amazon AWS

Developed the backend service and the mobile apps (iOS, Android) for the spanish weather information site ElTiempoTV.com. Technologies used: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Amazon AWS, REST, iOS, Android. 

Developed all the software (backend, frontend) for this site dedicated to online raffles. Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, HTML5. Also helped the CEO develop a sound strategy for the launch of this online service.

The main activity of this company was the development and launch in Spain and France of the online store www.planetapluton.com, dedicated to the sale of original, cool, novel and fun presents. Played the following roles during the development, launch and growth of this store:

• Choosing and implementing the underlying software infrastructure (using PHP, MySQL and OS-Commerce)
• Choosing and implementing the underlying hosting infrastructure
• Implementing all CRM and Customer Service procedures
• Implementing all logistic procedures
• Product selection. Relationships with providers in Spain, France, UK, Germany and USA
• Product acquisition. Imports and customs.
• Development of brand image
• Implementation of a marketing strategy, both offline and online
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
• Affiliate Marketing
• Newsletters and email marketing
• Social Networks (Facebook and Twitter)
• Relationships with the press.

This has provided an outstanding experience and knowledge in all aspects of e-commerce.

In this company dedicated to the development and distribution of mobile games, acted as a liaison between the commercial team and the technical team, making sure that all development followed the rules set up by the commercial department and leading the QA team that ensured that the games worked throughout the whole range of available handsets. Technologies used: Symbian, J2ME, InFusio, iMode. Also did a lot of commercial work and maintained the relationships with many different network operators like Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, TIM or T-Mobile.

In this company dedicated to the development of videogames for personal computers, consoles and arcade machines, led teams of up to 10 videogame developers, working in the development of more than 20 software titles. Technologies used: assembler, C, C++

One of the first 100 persons to get this certification.