javier ramirez

Since November 1994 I've been earning my salt in software development, doing this and that in different places, industries and companies, including a small java-centric shop I co-founded —and then cowardly left— some years ago.

Along these years I've delivered training on things like Robotics, Software Engineering, JAVA, PHP and Ruby on Rails. I have also participated in several workshops and conferences talking about Ruby on Rails, plug-in and games programming, XML processing, CSS frameworks, SEO or agile development.

Apart from the occasional freelancing or training gig, I'm the CTO of ASPgems, where I've been working since 2006 developing web projects with Ruby on Rails. I'm also the author of the book “Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development” and an active member of the local Ruby scene, being a founding member of the Spanish Rails Conference, the Spanish Ruby Users Group (SRUG) and madrid-rb, the Ruby users group in Madrid. Lately I can be seen also on the Agile Madrid group activities.

I'm currently based in Madrid, but in the past I've been working in Zaragoza, Brescia, New York, Barcelona and —for a brief period— London. The list of companies I've work for includes Fundación San Valero, Intersneter, Qarana Solutions, Genetsis Partners, Vector Software Factory, Intesys Integrated Services, Utende (I co-founded it), Fatwire and ASPgems. I have worked as a teacher for three Universities: Fundación San Valero, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and Tracor/San Pablo CEU