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Who am I?
Hi. My name is Julio Flores Schwarzbeck, I am a Mexican national living in the USA for more than 11 years. I am Currently employed
working as a Software Engineer and Application Developer at an important financial firm located in
Vancouver WA
and San Mateo, CA;
and live in the small but charming town of
Camas, WA.
I specialize in writing Python back-end (server) applications and front-end applications mainly using web2py and the Zope web application frameworks. Before I turned into another IT drone in Corporate America I worked extensively developing open source applications and remotely worked for many years (9) for several firms, taking special consideration in always attending their deadlines, something I consider a key point in order to maintain excellent business relationships when telecommuting. Needless to say, I still contact my former employers and I can proudly say that some of them are very good friends, even to this day. I also have worked in C# application development, building mostly middle-tier custom (back-end) components under Windows, and "converting" python core components into C#, why you ask? - sadly, it is the nature of the job, and some folks just don't get that changing an application frameworks just for the hype and sake of the new programming language is not necessary the best approach, but as always, politics apply.. I am an Industrial and Systems Engineer, with a BS in Manufacturing and Systems Engineering from my alma mater: Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora Located in Sonora México. I have been a hardcore Linux fan, using it since the RedHat 4/5 era until 2006. In that year, I was "introduced" to the Apple/Mac Platform by my good friend Julio (Tacuache) and have been alternating OSes constantly, my entire family is Mac-Based which means that we do nt have to spend $ in "licenses", "antvirus", "anti-malware" and all that nonsense. I currently use and program in my MacBook Pro (i7 2.7Ghz) while on the road, and at home I use a "venerable" Mac Mini (2.4Ghz) and in both configurations I use Fedora (14) and CentOS (5.5) in a Virtual Machine on Fusion, which I use to host apache, my python frameworks and my SQL server (MySQL 5.5, among others). Using Linux for the server side apps (much easier to administer). My programming editor of choice is Komodo Edit and Wing IDE which I use on the Mac side, editing all the corresponding source files "remotely". Finally I use Mercurial for my code repository/versioning needs. Among the projects that I've worked on that have a somewhat significant visibility are:
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