Pedro Alonso

English / Spanish

Contact

pedro at pedroalonso.net

About

• Software engineer at AKQA Ltd. From August 2008
   
• Software engineer at NOKIA gate5 GmbH. July 2007 - March 2008
   
• Engineering Degree in Computer Science (2003 – 2007), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  - Graduation Project with honors. (PDF file 16 Mb, available only in spanish)
   
• CV (PDF file)

Other Projects

• Internship at the Research Department of Image Processing. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. (February – June 2007)
  • Working in the context of the European project IP-RACINE, Integrated Project Research Area Cinema. My task was performing an algorithm for Movie Denoising by Average of Warped Lines in collaboration with Jesus Barcons, developed in C++ and supervised by Prof. Marcelo Bertalmio.
    
    
• Google Summer of Code 2006 Participant, Google Inc.
  • Developing the Perspective Clone tool, available by default in the kernel of GIMP 2.4. A video tutorial is available.
    One of 630 student participants selected out of over 3000 applicants to the program.
    Worked with mentor from project GIMP to develop a tool that allows cloning surfaces taking into account the perspective of the image, which is previously specified by the user. This project has been developed using C with GObject framework to use OOP. GTK+ library has been used for the graphical interface.
    
    
• Freelance website developer since 2002.
  • Several websites developed using mainly PHP as scripting language and MySQL for the database. These websites are composed by a public part (view) and a backend to manage the contents of the website.
    
    
  • Some expamples:
    • Tudiario, weblog comunity developed in January-April 2002. Updated the front end and backend based in Zend Framework and SEO optimized in December 2008.
    • Aitana Música, e-commerce website developed using OsCommerce, an open source e-commerce solution, as base and adjusting it to the client necessity. (November - December 2006)
    • Asperger Spanish Asociation website, currently offline. (February - August 2005).
    • Innat, currently offline, e-commerce website developed in PHP and MySQL. It also uses an API of a bank software to make payments by different kind of credit cards. (September - December 2004)