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If you want to know a bit more about myself, this is the right place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My full name is Xavier Ivars i Ribes, and I’m from Benissa<\/a>, a small town from Valencia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies and work…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After studying at my town’s High School Josep Iborra, in Benissa, I started my Engineering degree on Computer Science in Alacant’s University<\/a> in 2001. By then, I moved to Sant Vicent del Raspeig. I lived there for 5 years, and I met very good friends, and learned a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a year back in my town, working at Connecta Front-Back, and while I started with my PhD Aplicacions de la Inform\u00e0tica<\/a>, I went back to the University, specifically at Taller Digital<\/em>, as a software engineer. And after a year, I joined the SCABD<\/abbr> project at Transducens Group of the Language ad Information Systems Department. It was in this context when I presented my master thesis [ca]<\/a> about word models. After that, and until the end of March 2012, I was working as a software engineer at another project, European in this case, and also related digital libraries: the IMPACT Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2012 [ca]<\/a>, I moved to Barcelona to start working at Vistaprint<\/a>, where I’m currently Principal Software Engineer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bit geek…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m a huge fan of Internet and all the information technologies. Not only because that’s an important piece of my studies, but also because I love my home town, and I want everyone to know about it. Because of that, I founded Infobenissa<\/a> with a friend. Infobenissa is a local news site about Benissa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’ve always liked building websites. I built the first one using FrontPage<\/em> back in 2000, and I haven’t stopped since then: first plain HTML and server-side includes, later on vanilla PHP, soon I moved to WordPress for hobbie\/NGO<\/em> websites, but also a lot of other technologies at work (starting in JSP back in 2008 through ReactJS with GatsbyJS, touching other stuff in the meantime like WebForms or ASP.NET MVC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music and “festa”…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another big hobbie is music. I’ve always loved it, and I still play the oboe in my home town’s local orchestra, Banda de Benissa<\/a>, as well as in La Valenciana<\/a><\/em> in Barcelona. In the past, I’ve also played the saxophone in Xaranga la Morralla<\/a>, and other musical instruments like dol\u00e7aina<\/a><\/em>, a tipical Valencian instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also part of the Fil\u00e0 Califes since the day I was born: I first was part of the big entrada <\/em>at the Moors and Christians festival in my home town in June 1983, when I was only 3 months old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bit more stuff…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in the techie<\/em> area, but also ling\u00fcistic, I’ve been volunteering since October 2004 at Softcatal\u00e0<\/a>, a non-profit focused on localizing (translating and adapting) software to Catalan, and also part of the Valencian, <\/em>Softvalenci\u00e0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main role is keeping up to date the linguistic tools (translator and proofreading tool), web management and social media. But I also take care of other stuff when it’s needed: from translations, development of other software we own, etc. In the past, I was deeply involved in translations of Mozilla products: Firefox, Thunderbird and extensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My digital me…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As every techie<\/em>, I have an account at pretty much every social network, but that doesn’t mean I use them at all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here you have some links<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook<\/a> – Twitter<\/a> – Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there’s anything you need from me, just let me know! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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