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Contractor for hire

As a contractor with my company Rigor Alliance I am available for gigs helping your technical team boost their skills in automation, CI/CD, images creation, monitoring, observability, infrastructure as code, costs reduction and performance improvements.

Standing out projects

In the tech industry since 2002, I have been lucky enough to participate in a lot of excellent projects. Some of the most relevant ones are:

Please check my Linkedin profile for further details on these and many other projects

Side projects

  • Co-organiser of the DevOps Barcelona Conference and the PHP Barcelona Conference
  • Co-founder of CTO Camp where we boost careers training the new generation of technology leaders
  • Co-author of the Ansistrano project which is a pair of Ansible roles to help deploying and rolling back applications. The project has more than 1800 Github stars and has been used in more than 1.3M deployments
  • From 2013 to 2016, I collaborated as a Facebook games developer with Undercoders. We built the HTML5 of 3 of their games: Video Games Quiz (20k users), Movies Quiz (60k users) and Band Land (30k users).
  • From 2005 to 2010, I was co-creator and administrator of the biggest independent music portal and forum in Spain, www.OnlyHouseMusic.org. We had 5k daily unique visitors and served more than 2 million pages a month

Certifications

  • Sensio Labs Certified Symfony Developer (Advanced)
  • 1Z0-871 MySQL 5 Developer Certified Professional Exam, Part I
  • Zend PHP 5 Certified

Independent Coursework

  • Coursera - Machine Learning
  • Coursera - Programming in R
  • DataStax - Java Development with Apache Cassandra
  • Coursera - Algorithms I
  • Coursera - Algorithms II
  • Coursera - Reactive Programming

Personal information

Currently living in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
ricard.clau@gmail.com