Arnau Sánchez Sala
Barcelona (17/10/1978)
Pinós, Lleida (Spain)
Single
Telecommunication Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya). 5th course and thesis at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Mother-tongue.
Fluent. FCE (First Certificate in English).
Languages (expertise): 80x86 assembler, C, Python, Ruby, Javascript/Coffescript, Unix shell languages (Bash, Ksh, …), Haskell, Scala
Web development: Ruby (Ruby on Rails) and Python (Django).
Web-map frameworks: OpenLayers.
GUI applications (GTK, Qt)
Databases (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
Linux Kernel modules (2.4/2.6).
Reverse-engineering (debuggers and disassemblers for Win32 and Linux).
TDD (Test-driven development).
Remote file-systems (Samba, NFS).
Mail servers (Sendmail, Postfix) y webmail (Squirrelmail).
Security, privacity (GPG), firewalls (Iptables).
Virtual Private Networks
Network management protocols and software (SNMP, Zabbix, Nagios).
Emulation and virtualization: Qemu, VirtualBox
Hardware (IP phones, ATA).
Software (Asterisk).
Solar photovoltaic systems.
ST6, PIC micro-controllers
Modulations (FSK, QAM, OFDM), FEC algorithms (BCH, Reed-Solomon, Turbocodes).
Phonepatchs. Main developer of asterisk-phonepatch.
Scholar at Facultad de Informática de Barcelona (FIB-UPC), installation and maintenance of software and hardware.
Scholar at UPM. Thesis: "Radio links optimization on AX25 with DAMA-protocol and TCP/IP".
Software developer at EHAS, working on HF/VHF radio links, web development (CherryPy and Turbogears), hardware design, installation and maintenance of networks in the Peruvian forest (GNU/Linux client and servers).
Rails developer at Gnuine, using agile development and TDD (Test Driven Development). Sites: xal.cat, xn-noticies, playboy.es
Software freelance developer mainly focusing on web and Rails development. Sites: Superesqui, Myfamilypedia, acb.com, Fcbarcelona.
Conference: "HF radio links for Rural Telemedicine Systems in Developing Countries" at School on Radio Based Computer Networking for Developing Countries del ICTP.
Article "Low-cost telecommunication System and information services for rural primary healthcare in developing countries" para el congreso WITFOR 2007 (World IT Forum).
Workshot at ConferenciaRails2011. "Functional Programming with Ruby" (slides)