My name is Victor,
and I'm a user-centric software developer
I enjoy learning about everything. I gain experiencies and knowledge by reading books and connecting with nature and other people's souls. This is why I'm building a worldwide community for houseplant lovers.
I do sport 🏋️, I love yoga and meditation 🧘, I travel whenever I can 🛫, and I wonder about life.
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ChooseYourPlant
ChooseYourPlant is an online community for houseplant lovers to find a plant that suits your likes and meet people like you.
Learn how to take care of the plants thanks to our plant guides, show us your plants, discover shops near you and share your plant journey with the community.
Check the communityMentor and contributor at Coding Coach
Contributed to build the open-source dev community created by Emma Bostian for finding a tech coach that can lead you in the correct path.
Not only I solved some people's, problems but I mentored a few as well.
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My skills
I focused my career on front-end development to be as closest as possible to the people who use my products because I've always been attracted to phsicology and design.
In the first 5 years of experience as software enginneer I've learned the core principles to high on Google thanks to SEO, improve the user experience by making the products fast, beautiful, accessible, inclusive along with other things.
Last year I've learned about infrastructure and marketing because I want to create products that people need.
Soft skills
- Leadership
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Empathy and kindness
- Open-mindness and adaptability
- Critical thinking
- Time and people management
Hard skills
- Marketing online and SEO
- UI/UX, practices to increase conversion
- Semantic HTML and web accesibility
- CSS, SASS, LESS, JSS (Styled Components, Emotion, styled-jsx, etc.)
- Javascript, ReactJS, VueJS
- Typescript, NodeJS, ExpressJS
- Unit and Integration testing, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Cypress
- Automation and tooling with NodeJS
- Hexagonal Architecture, DDD
- Web performance and image optimization
- Browser compatibility, AB Testing, etc.
Companies I worked for
In 5 years I have worked in several companies in different industries that have allowed me to know the market and the needs and interests of the customers.
Some of my articles
I write about some of my learnings and curiosities to keep a track of the things I do. Some articles are longer than others, so expect the unexpected.
How to use Husky to create pre-commit and pre-push hooks
Learn how to execute Husky to prevent git push and git commit to execute your tests, linting, formatting or whatever you want.
Read articleLearn how to target keywords with Google Trends
Identify what keywords would work better for you and learn how to segment your users with Google Trends by examples
Read articleHow to improve the SEO and user experience of your website by analyzing metrics
I explain how I improved the SEO and user experience of ChooseYourPlant by analyzing some metrics and how you can do the same for your blog or community.
Read articleChooseyourplant is a houseplant marketplace to discover and find your next plant.
Chooseyourplant is a houseplant marketplace to discover plants that match your likes as no ones has never done. Its intention is to simplify the search of plants, cares and more!
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