Personal details

Jesus L. - Remote front-end developer

Jesus L.

Based in: 🇨🇴 Colombia
Timezone: Bogota (UTC-5)

Summary

Specialties: CSS, XHTML, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Web Standard Compliance Assesment, Web Accessibility Evaluation, Crossbrowsing Test / Fixes, jQuery, SEF/SEO, Lightning Web Components.

I love when a site works properly, no errors, semantically correct, loading fast, optimizing resources usage and accesible for humans and machines (hello GoogleBot), I envision coding as a craft.

Work Experience

Freelance Web Developer / Consultant
(self employed) | May 2013 - Present
Git
WordPress
Drupal
Joomla!
SVG
Responsive Design
Accessibility
Liquid
Foundation
Full stack freelance web developer / consultant, with an (obvious) focus for front-end development area, working on wide-range projects on several platforms, but mostly WordPress. - CMS install/setup/customization (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal) - Most used languages: PHP, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Liquid (for templating), JavaScript (jQuery framework), and SASS for CSS preprocessing - Front-end Development Services, PSD/PNG to HTML, JQuery coding, CMS theme/template creation. - Worked with icon fonts and SVG to achieve crisp graphics across all devices / display resolutions - Web standards audit, WCAG/508 assessment - Crossbrowsing, graceful degradation, progressive enhancement - Responsive Web Design implementation - Projects in both languages: English & Spanish - By default, working with a local Git setup for version control - Task management using Basecamp & Trello - Using several tools for client communication / feedback, such email, Trello, Slack, InVision, et plus. - Project troubleshooting / bugfixing - Proud user and advocate of SASS & Zurb Foundation framework, also user of Grunt, libsass and some node.js utilities (but also had projects using Bootstrap)
Frontend Developer
Nearsource, inc. | Nov 2013 - Nov 2016
HTML/CSS
PHP
WordPress
Responsive Design
Foundation
Bootstrap
Subversion
ASP.NET
Working on mainly three axis: - Converting designs into HTML/CSS pages/templates, used as demo prototypes for clients or basis to be taken for other developers to build web applications/websites. Most of design implemented as responsive - standard compliant using HTML5/CSS3. - Creating WordPress themes or editing/customizing already made ones, some theme complex to render special data views using custom fields on the backend. - Giving remote training workshops to the team, about web basics, standard compliance, CSS, Foundation framework. On frontend tasks, worked on several platforms / frameworks, to ensure crossbrowsing and optimized rendering, one big project was to convert and old and big intranet site into a revamped responsive web app, wiring up Foundation framework from ZURB along with redesign implementation.

Personal Projects

2013
HTML/CSS
PHP
jQuery
API
Responsive Design
Foundation
Full Web implementation using the API created for iOS mobile app