Salvador Molina Moreno (slv_)
From the Lullabot employee profile:
Salva started as a computer science student at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. He came across Drupal while working as an editor for a Spanish video game magazine during his free time. The magazine’s website was built on Drupal 5 and Salva quickly became curious about “the magic” that made the platform run so well. That “magic” was Drupal, but while the code and modules were what drew him in, it was the strength of the community that kept him around.
Salva’s main interests lie in back-end programming and design. His expansive experience includes working on e-commerce solutions, media sites, and data migrations. He particularly enjoyed working in the stock markets branch of the French newspaper, Le Figaro, and being the team lead when rebuilding the platform for the National STEM Centre of the United Kingdom where he learned a lot about the non-technical aspects of projects, development workflows, etc. Salva has also spent a decent amount of time in the land of IT Security and is obsessed with the automation and optimization of development workflows and processes.
Originally from Central Spain, Salva has spent time moving around (thanks to remote jobs) which included living in London for a few years. His home region is Castilla-La Mancha, a land full of vineyards, olive plantations, and cheese, which is widely known for two things — windmills and the setting of Don Quixote.
He now lives in Madrid and enjoys reading, sports, playing video games, and playing music on his Ibanez guitar.
From LinkedIn:
I'm a senior PHP developer, passionate about Design Patterns, DDD, performance, and security. I'm proficient primarily in PHP and JavaScript, and the core of my experience is around Symfony (~4 years), and Drupal (> 8 years). I'm a contributor of the Drupal ecosystem (https://drupal.org/user/826088).
I've worked for international clients such us The Economist, The British Council, Haymarket Media Group, Le Figaro, the Wellcome Trust, the Greater London Authority, STEM Learning LTD, Medicins sans frontieres, the ECMWF, Redactive Media Group, the International Atomic Energy Agency), and Stickergiant.com.
During my professional career, I've undertaken works of the following nature:
- Led web development projects for the London Enterprise Panel and STEM Learning Ltd, from investigation phase to completion, as well as post-launch development.
- Development of internal tools in Symfony.
- Delivered internal training to the IAEA.
- Drupal Consultancy, site-building and development of custom modules.
- Investigation of project requirements and elaboration of Architectural plans for them.
- Design and development of a newsletter system to deliver thousands of emails weekly.
- e-Commerce sites based on Ubercart (D6), Drupal Commerce (D7), and custom shopping workflows and tools.
- Integration with payment gateways, login systems and external data sources (Sharepoint).
- High-traffic Media sites.
- Data Migrations (from bespoke, Drupal and .NET sources).
- MS SQL Server to MySQL Migrations.
- Platforms with financial data updated in realtime.
- Node.js-based applications.
- Development of applications with mapping capabilities.
- ESI & Varnish.
- Functional (BDD) and Unit test writing.
- On the non-technical side of things, I've been designated as a member of a quality committee to develop and oversee company workflows and processes, to deliver the best quality to our clients, as part of the ISO 9001 certification.
From his portfolio website:
It's me... Salva!
Yup, that's my name. I am a Web & Drupal junior developer from Spain, right now based in London and working with great people at Code Enigma, an exciting and groundbreaking Drupal company.
When I'm not plotting some kind of world domination with PHP, I spend some time with .NET C#, mostly doing some video game programming stuff in XNA. I also have knowledge of jQuery and HTML 5, and I always tend to find some extra time (or at least I try) to continue learning about everything related to Web 2.0, SEO, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Latest Project
After being the editor and later editor-in-chief for TeknoConsolas, a Spanish videogame magazine, I decided to take the hobby in a more relaxed and personal way and launched my own videogame website.
Begamer is a videogame blog where I usually write news and articles about the industry scene, always from a personal point of view and trying to entertain our readers. It started as a personal project with the collaboration and help of a few friends, but nowadays, some other people contribute, mostly, but not necessarily speaking about video games. You are welcome, too.
