Personal Background
About myself
me
Well, I’m Jorge Alejandro Figueroa Perez, sometimes just Jorge, sometimes just Alejandro, most times just Ale and in the Internet most of the times I’m Yknx (Except on some sites where some asian dude got the nickname first).
I’m a supporter of Social Freedom, Internet Rights and the LGBT Community. I have the opinion that everyone can and shall live however the f*ck they want as long as they don’t harm anyone else’s freedom.
I think any society should be free of oppression, and have all their human rights assured regardless of their political, religious, sexual, or whatever position.
I think all those rights should be also preserved and enforced in all the modern environments that are constantly surging in the Internet. (Yep, This means that you should also be able to do whatever you want on the Internet)
And I’m against Gender Roles (a byproduct of sexism), I don’t think a person can be defined by what society tells them they are supposed to be just because the person was born with or without something between the legs. I consider myself transgender or even better Allgendersatthesametime-ish bigender, so feel free to address me however you feel you should.
I live in this unique place called Colima in this interesting country called Mexico, and I have been living here for about all my life. [Except for the 6 months I gladly had the opportunity to live in South Korea]
myself
I love to read everything about tech, and I try to hack every single gadget in my hands.
Currently I have a router with tomato-wrt working as my personal server, and customized roms on my Android devices, I also enjoy the music, and have played guitar for about 10 years, but mostly as a casual hobby and not as a professional guitarist.
Also I’m a fan of Korean and Japanese culture, I had for about 5 years a University club about it, so I learned and researched a lot about it, also I lived 6 months in South Korea and been a few times too Japan. So I got to experience the real thing at least for a short time, and I came to love it even more.
Language Learning
I love languages, i really like to learn languages, as now I can handle these:
- Spanish: [I’m Mexican so….]
- English: [Good enough for living and working - Cambride FCE B2]
- Korean: [Been learning for 4 years, I have a intermediate level, 난 한국말을 항상 연습 한 중인데 당신이 연습도 하고 싶으하면 매시지를 보내 주세요]
- Japanese: [This is the half of my first year, so I suck pretty much :P]
Professional Background
Development
Software Engineer student with strong Development Abilities.
I am deeply interested on mobile development for Android, Desktop Applications on .NET, and web development, especially in newer and promising technologies like Nodejs, MongoDB, Ruby/Rails, etc…
I have been playing with programming since Secondary School, and have tried multiple languages and platforms. So far liking Javascript/Node.js, C#/.NET and Java/Android the most.
Enviroment
I mostly work on Windows and recently OSX but I can move freely on Linux based environments.
Brackets for NodeJS and web development.
MacDown for Markdown.
Android Studio well…. for Android.
Visual Studio for .NET.
RubyMine for Ruby (At least until I have my Student License ㅠㅠ).
Atom and SublimeText are my backups when something else fails.
Experience
MagmaLabs - Intern (2016 - now)
Right now I’m doing my internship as a developer in MagmaLabs, working with Ruby/Rails, Javascript (this time AngularJS) and Android.
Projects:
- Beanstack (Library web application in Ruby/Rails)
- MagmaRooms (Android Application for Google Calendar)
School Projects - University of Colima (2012 - 2015)
Even though most school projects sucks, and we all know it, I did multiple school projects in which I have practiced all my learnt knowledge. Some of them are available on my GitHub repo.
Information Retrieval Engine (School Project) - University of Korea (March 2016 - June 2016)
I had plenty of fun with this project, it was the first time i had to work with proper Math models.
I had to program a Information Retrieval engine for web documents that calculates similarity based on a query and displays relevant documents (an archaic search engine), I did the processing in .NET and showed the results in a web page made on Express.js/Node.js with all the information stored in MySQL.