April 2023 update

On December 2023, after a year working in the DLX project, I decided it was time to have a change. We were deploying the first MVP in production and I felt like I was stuck.

I learnt a lot during this year. On the one hand, working methodologies and being being part of a team. On the other hand, interacting with a solid infrastructure like Santander's and connecting services, databases, queues, containers, adopting CI/CD, deployment environments... All these things surrounding code development that are not that easy (or impossible) to learn on one's own.

Nevertheless, after all these, the feeling of stagnation among other things made me decide to leave and look for another opportunity.

During the following 3 months I started working on a friend's idea for an application wich we are using to learn several new technologies. The project is allowing us to learn end-to-end development, using VueJS with Quasar for the front and Django for the back. There will be updates on this matter.

At the same time, this April 2024 I started a new position as a consultant developer in Nworld, whom assigned me a new project in Cajamar for the transformation of their platform.

February 2023

On November 2022, the company Optimissa contacted me for a position as a Java developer as a consultant in SGT branch in Banco Santender. It was my first oportunity and I took it. Since then, I have been working on the DLX team in Banco Santander.

DLX is an app focused on bringing sindicated lending to the modern world of smart services. It's objective is allowing companies to create, watch and take care of their sindicated loans. A sindicated loan is financed by multiple entities due to its volume.

My job is to integrate this application with the Santander software, this means taking care of the backend of the application. I work with the Spring framework on Java. Through this first three months I have learned the basics of microservices, dependency injection (Maven and Spring Boot), along with some Kubernates, git and Kafka.

For now, the project is on development, so I hope I can learn a lot from it.

About me

I'm a Spanish physics graduate passionate for coding. Currently I'm trying to start a career as a software developer.

I learned a bit of Python in college and I'm not troubled to say I was pretty good at it. So I recently started considering taking programming as a path in life. Since then, I have improved my Python abilities and learned bit of Java, which means I handle object oriented programming. I understood the basic concepts of relational data bases with SQL and developed my HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills in order to make this page possible. And finally, I dove into the world of pointers, memory management and data structures with C and C++. Currently I'm mostly interested in artificial inteligence and machine learning. The only thing left for me (and probably the most important) is work experience. Hopefully that need will soon be fulfilled.

I attatch my CV in case you're interested: English Spanish

About this page

This is the page where I upload my progress as a professional portfolio for anyone interested to visit. The complete page is created by me from scratch. My intention is to show my versatility and well done work.

A bit about my student career

I have always had an atraction to understanding how things work, which may explain why I have loved physics since I started highschool, when I barely knew what it even was. Physics describe and predict the very behaviour of our surroundings and, as I learned later, of the whole Universe.

That passion just got bigger when I understood that pure mathematics could literally predict the future. So the four years I dedicated to my degree were, to say the least, bearable. I highly preferred theoretical over experimental physics, the data collecting and analysis was much less intriguing to me than just speculating and developing about the theoretical meaning of everything. The perfect example is my degree final project, which was about cosmological inflation ("Introducción a la Cosmología Inflacionaria" in Spanish). I may talk a bit more about it in another article but, in essence, Inflation is a mechanism produced by a hypothetical exotic energy at the very begining of time that may explain why the Universe is as it is today.

I really liked the topic and learned a lot, but at the same time it made me realize that the research field wasn't my thing. My last year in college (2020-2021) and the 3 months after the summer I spended finishing my project got me really tired of sudying, collecting knowledge and understanding very complicated concepts, so I turned my back on physics for the time being.

My second passion after physics was (and is) cars and mechanics. I have always had an attraction on finding and repairing problems on everything, and I found cars to be the perfect combo of many different technical areas. Having done some repairing to my own car I felt like this might be my choice in life. Nevertheless, everyone I knew in that scope told me it was not a good job, lots of work, not so much pay... Still I would have tried.

Things changed when, on December 2021, I saw a YouTube video from 3Blue1Brown called "Alice, Bob and the average shadow of a cube" about how two people could approach a problem in completely different maners and still get to the same results. In this video, Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown), introduced two ways of approaching the problem of calculating the average area of the shadow of a cube using programming. At this point I had a few notions on the topic so this made me think about what would I have tried to solve it. This thoughts made something sparkle in my head. For the first time the idea of becoming a programmer appeared in my mind, and once it started spreading, it did not stop.

On the Programs page I talk about my learning process on this field.