allejo
A developer pretending to know what he's doing • https://allejo.io
My name's Vladimir and on the Internet, I go by "allejo."
I'm just another boring developer pretending to know what he's doing in Los Angeles, California. I enjoy late night food runs, eating wings, staring at my desktop legion, and occasionally playing on my PS4.
When I'm not building on BZFlag related projects or working on open source projects, I work as a web developer for the Associated Students at my college. On any given day, I could be designing a front-end, maintaining open source projects, or maintaining content in a CMS.
Since I'm not busy enough and am an advocate for open source projects, these are the projects/communities that I'm actively involved in and dedicate a lot of my spare time towards.
Web Developer
CSUN Associated Students
I maintain the Associated Students (AS) website, develop internal web applications used by staff, and build websites dedicated to projects or events hosted by AS. I also maintain PhpPulse, an API wrapper for DaPulse — the collaboration tool my team uses. The internal web applications I work on are built on top of Symfony and Vue.js, depending on the usage of the tool.
Web Developer Intern
City of Santa Monica
I'm a part of Santa Monica's web development team where I work on building and maintaining city websites; additionally, I contribute to several of our open source projects. Some of the bigger projects I've worked on so far have been publishing our website analytics and redesigning the BigBlueBus website to be mobile responsive.
During the summers of 2014, 2015, and 2016, I assisted in running the Santa Monica Youth Tech Program where I served as a web development instructor teaching high school students the basics of web design and development.
Student Representative, Associated Students
Classroom Technology Committee
The Classroom Technology Committee (CTC) is an ad-hoc working group reporting to the Advisory Committee on Academic Technology, comprising stakeholders and individuals with an interest in ensuring the effective use of classroom technologies.
Web Developer Intern
City of Santa Monica
I worked with the web development team focusing on the front-end of their new department websites. While I spent the majority of my time working on the front-end of websites, I spent some time porting old VB code to C# in the websites that were being updated and worked on building search functionality for the Historic Resources Inventory database.
I occasionally take part in code related competitions whenever I'm invited to do so. Here are some notable mentions of competitions I've participated in and the work I did during the said competitions.
Docker Docs Hackathon 2017
2nd Place
I participated in Docker's Docs Hackathon to help improve their documentation website. I'm not familiar enough with Docker to be able to update/write documentation so I participated in a way I could still benefit the community: I submitted pull request #2860, which improved the responsive behavior of the website and reduced the redundancy of certain aspects of the site's Jekyll code. This single pull request fixed several known issues that existed and several issues that hadn't been reported yet.
AppJam 2015
2nd Place
I participated in CSUN's first annual AppJam event with a team of friends to create Coral Finance—a sandboxed financial stock application. The goal of this app was to expose students to the stock market risk-free by simulating purchases of real stocks to show profit or losses. I created a fake stock market, accessible through an API, which moved at a quicker pace than the real stock market to see quicker results.
I do the majority of my open source work for fun because I enjoy it. If you've found any of my projects useful and want to support its development, here are a few ways you can.