Work Experience

Feb 2018 – Today: EQS Group

Supporting the 5 Cloud Teams of the IR COCKPIT.

Company dedicated to provide a software platform and services for Investor Relations, Communication and Corportate Compliance. With most of the German DAX companies as customers. And the biggest European provider of Whistleblower software.

I joined the Frontend team responsible for building the new flagship product of the company in Angular 5+ and the emerging Component Library.

In late 2019, took the technical responsibility for the “new Cockpit”, reorganized the engineering teams, and grew it to 5 Teams.

In late 2022, moved to the Corporate Compliance division where the task has been to integrate the engineering teams coming from the BK acquisition into our Private Cloud Kubernetes Infrastructure, Frontend tech stack, and engineering culture.

Roles:

• Senior Engineering Manager
  • BKMS System: Enterprise Compliance Whistleblower SaaS (present)
  • IR COCKPIT (5 Teams) (Until September 2022)
• Team Lead of the Frontend engineers (Until September 2019)
• Senior Frontend Engineer (Until March 2019)

Responsibilities:

• Managing managers, tech teams and individual contributors.
• Career progression and performance assessment framework.
• Product planning & technical roadmap.
• Resource & capacity planning and budgeting.
• Active member of the ISMS
• Hiring: Recruiting, creating tests and taking interviews.
• Architectural reviews of technical initiatives, from whiteboard to code reviews.
• Onboarding for engineers and managers.
• Our Component Library using Storybook and ng-packager.
• Release Management / Release protocol.
• Frontend Training for developers starting on Frontend.
• HTML, CSS, Typescript + Angular development.

Responsibilities:

• Frontend: ES5, ES6, Backbone, jQuery, Require.js, Browserify, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, and other obscure tech.
• PHP backend development: Yii, Wordpress.
• AB tests implementation with Optimizely and a proprietary system.
• Frontend architecture: Lead the Frontend sync.
• Recruiting assistance, creating tests and taking interviews.
• Leading driver of frontend performance.

May 2006 – Nov 2014: VOXEL → MEDULA DISEÑO

Partner and Senior Full Stack Developer

Client services agency dedicated to Web Design, Graphic Design, interactive design and software development. Branch of Voxel Multimedia.
On April of 2009 one partner sold his part to my wife and me and we became Médula Diseño where my wife Violeta Sánchez E. does most of the design job and I lead the the development. The agency grew up to become a team of 6 (plus some friendly contractors).

Portfolio: All of the work in medula.cl has been done under my lead; most, directly by me. I have created several long relationships with customers and organizations which enable constant iteration of projects even on tight budgets.

Responsibilities:

• Project management.
• Recruiting and Hiring.
• Design and development of: – Websites. – Custom web software (web apps). – POP multimedia interactive software (Flash, Director, and web).
• Illustration

May 2005 – April 2006: VOXEL MULTIMEDIA

Designer / Web Designer

Client services agency dedicated to 3 areas:
Graphic Design, interactive design and web development.
Audiovisual production and post-production.
3D modeling, animation and rendering.

Here I worked on the design and development of websites and multimedia interactive software (Flash and Director).

Personal projects

Some work fine and I use everyday, some are work in progress; all could use some more work.

• Printable cards: compose and print handouts Simple VueJS app I wrote for creating and storing printable “handouts” for the DnD campaign I play with my kids. Backed by some Google Cloud serverless products. Repo: https://github.com/baamenabar/printable-handout-cards
• Flyimg: Image transformations microservice Dockerized PHP7 application runs as a Microservice to resize and crop images on the fly. Get optimized images with MozJPEG, WebP or PNG using ImageMagick. Created in collaboration with Sadok Ferjani.
• The Sylvan Guide Wild areas and biodiversity guide, built in AngularJS and Ionic. It’s a simple working demo, more info at huilmo.org
• SVGfall SVG images with reliable fast fallback to bitmap (now on version 2).
• Styleguide with GULP+CSS Boilerplate A simple web Styleguide which works well as a CSS+HTML boilerplate.
• jQuery File Upload and Crop Friendly multiple image uploader with a crop window. Forked from BlueImp’s jQuery Uploader.
• Draggable elements bookmarklet jQuery and jQuery UI bookmarklet to easily make any element draggable with relative, absolute or fixed positioning.
• Liquen-php PHP image manipulation class (resize, crop and caching) Demo
• Medula codeBlog / SLyP My attempt to build a static blog generator after only hearing about Jekyll. Still remains as my code blog.
• Musicador Music player designed for non-destructive cropping of songs to create, manage and migrate music for roleplaying sessions (mp3 files).