Jorge Marcos Chávez

Electronic music geek. DevOps Engineer at Avid.

Getafe, Madrid (Spain) - Contact me

About me

DevOps Engineer, and Computer Science and Engineering graduate via Carlos III University of Madrid. My final project involved designing and developing a desktop application using JavaFX for GUI and MIDI communications with hardware.

I like C programming and audio software. I have experience working as a DevOps engineer, designing and implementing pipelines and other Continuous Integration infrastructure with GitLab in the three major operating systems, and scripting with Bash, PowerShell and Python.

Apart from my CS side, I make electronic music and spend a lot of time tinkering with audio software and music production. For more than 8 years I have been learning and creating with different aliases (7th Pyramid and Mark II), and learning with other musicians and friends. As a result of this, I am really interested in audio technology, especially the intersection between CS and digital audio.

What I know

• No-nonsense software development. Mostly C-style coding, Python scripting and also OOP in Java (and JavaFX for GUIs), web development with the HTML5 family) and REST APIs.

• Computer Science and Engineering things, what I learned in the bachelor. I'm also interested in Linux, data storage, (basic) DSP among other things.

• Sound and audio, making music in the computer. Creating and finishing electronic music, mixing recordings, DJing, MIDI controllerism, audiovisual generation and performances.

• Basic video recording, editing, production. Vegas and Adobe Premiere, audio production and mixing.

Experience

• DevOps Engineer @ Avid Technology, from January 2022, remote (Madrid).

  DevOps Engineering tasks with audio software and hardware projects. Continous Integration of desktop and firmware applications. Mostly GitLab, Python, Bash and PowerShell, with our own physical machines.

• Frontend Web Developer @ Open Summer of Code Spain, July 2021 only, remote (Madrid).

  Frontend design and implementation with HTML, CSS and Bootstrap, and integration with a REST API using JS. The idea was to design and develop in two weeks, and release the code with an Open Source license.

• DevOps Intern @ Ericsson España, from July 2020 to March 2021, remote (Madrid).

  Internship in a support team, solving problems and aiding development teams that work in 5G core technologies.

  Worked with DevOps technologies like Jenkins, a bit of Spinnaker and an in-house pipeline declarative language; Bash and Python to solve problems via scripting and REST APIs; used Jira and Gerrit to coordinate the assigned tickets and manage commits and code; Microsoft Outlook and Teams were used to attend and organize meetings, and keep in contact with my teammates.

• Frontend Web Developer @ Open Summer of Code Spain, July 2019 only, in Villaverde.

  Frontend design and implementation with HTML, CSS and integration with JS. Team of three people developing part of a website to vote school projects. The idea was to design and develop in three weeks, and release the code with an Open Source license.

• ARCOS UC3M Intern @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, June to December 2018, in Leganés.

  Study of distributed object storage systems like Redis, Memcached, LevelDB, and also distributed file systems like LustreFS and Hadoop. Modification of Redis to include data-to-node specification to get more control of the cluster. Bash, C and C++ to make test programs and scripts, LaTeX for documentation.

• Video editor @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, January to May 2018, in Leganés.

  Internship in Getafe's UC3M campus, in the U.T.E.D.A. department. Recording and editing of MOOCs and educational videos, working with Adobe Creative Cloud suite (mainly Premiere Pro, Audition and Media Encoder) and professional audio and video recording equipment. We worked directly with teachers, making their online class content better.

• Composer and SFX designer @ Triunity Studios, June 2015 to September 2017, remote (Barcelona).

  Worked in the ambiental, hybrid electronic music as well as SFX for two Triunity Studios mobile games, Rasta Run and Woloball, both published in Google Play Store.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (Engineering branch) @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, from 2016 to 2021, in Leganés.

• Keyboard lessons, music theory and band practice @ Escuela de Música Maestro Gombau, 2006 to 2015, 2019 to 2021, in Getafe.

  I did 7 years of keyboard lessons, music theory, harmony and composition, 2 years of sound engineering, and 6 years in a band. I returned in 2019 to play in another band, again as a keyboardist in pop and soul/funk bands.

• Composing Film Music for Beginners @ Utrecht Summer School, July 2019, in Utrecht.

• Introduction to Complex Systems @ Utrecht Summer School, July 2018, in Utrecht.

Organizations

• Collaborator @ Escuela de DJs Getafe, September 2018 to July 2021.

  We organized DJing and music production lessons and I helped teaching DJing and production, and also organizing events like Getafe Room. I was the video editor too, did the web development and part of the graphic design.

• Secretary, president and collaborator @ GUL UC3M, September 2016 to May 2019.

  I helped organize talk days, learning sessions and competitions about programming and Linux.

Certifications

• Docker intro + Kubernetes and Helm administration @ ComponentSoft, issued October 2020.

• Cambridge English: First (FCE), issued August 2014.