Hello, I am Fernando, a software developer from Madrid, Spain. I started dabbing in computers around 1986, and writing production software on 1999. Yes, that's when The Matrix was released <insert joke about how old I am>.

I am specialized in complex e-commerce and fintech web applications specialy within the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. I like leanring new stuff and sharing with others, I have taught programming courses and collaborated in tech events, such as Spainjs, or the Spanish Rails Conference.

I spend most of my non-working time trying to be a passable father and husband, but when time allows, I love reading some good sci-fi, cycling, or practicing martial arts, most recently: Sabre Fencing.

Languages/Frameworks

• Recently brush up on my Python as a response to my employer needs
• Ruby on Rails Working since 2006, speaking at events since 2009, organizing since 2010
• HTML For so long that I learned the tags in UPPERCASE
• CSS, SCSS, SASS Since there was nothing but tables and GIFs
• Javascript, ES6+ worked for a year as a framework developer
• Coffeescript

I have also worked with Perl, PHP and Go and made some study or experimenting with Node, Crystal and Elixir.

Platform

• Debian GNU/Linux and sometimes Ubuntu
• I have been known to grumblingly use OSX.
• Docker
• MySQL
• Redis

Tools

• Vim you may sneek into my old config but now I am into Neovim you may also sneek into my new config.
• Git but old enough to have used SVN and to have not used it because it did not exist.
• Bash

• Mocks and stubs cheatsheet (minitest) 2019
• ES6+ classes and the snake game 2019
• Javascript Array.reduce and the roman numerals (again) 2019
• Tradeoffs of different ways to use ruby modules 2018
• Sandi Metz and the roman numerals 2016
• On hashes and procs in Ruby 2016
• Tic Tac Toe on Ruby 2015
• Gilded Rose Kata 2015

• ✅ 1974 The Dispossessed

• ✅ 2014 The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga Book 1)
• 🔜 2015 Empire Ascendant (Worldbreaker Saga Book 2)
• ✅ 2016 The Geek Feminist Revolution (Essay)
• ✅ 2017 The Stars Are Legion
• ✅ 2019 The Light Brigade

Broken Earth

• ✅ 2015 The Fifth Season
• ✅ 2016 The Obelisk Gate
• ✅ 2017 The Stone Sky

The Locked Tomb

• 🔜 20xx 0.5 - The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
• ✅ 2019 1 - Gideon the Ninth
• ✅ 2020 2 - Harrow the Ninth
• 🔜 2021 2.5 - As yet unsent
• ✅ 2022 3 - Nona the Ninth
• 🔜 20?? 4 - Alecto the Ninth

Imperial Radch

• ✅ 2013 Ancillary Justice
• ✅ 2014 Ancillary Sword
• ✅ 2015 Ancillary Mercy

• ✅ 2019 This is how you loose the Time War

• ✅ 2021 Persephone Station

Teixcalaan

• ✅ 2019 A Memory called Empire
• ✅ 2021 A Desolation called Peace

Unstoppable Series

• ✅ 2021 Victories Greater than Death

• ✅ 2022 Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak

• 🔜 2023 Promises Stronger Than Darkness

• 🔜 2019 The City in the Middle of the Night

Nothing is promised

• ✅ When you had power
• ✅ You knew the price
• 🔜 Of kindness and kilowatts
• 🔜 Yet you cry when it hurts

Old Man's War Series

• ✅ 2007 Old Man’s War
• ✅ 2007 The Ghost Brigades
• ✅ 2007 The Last Colony
• ✅ 2012 Zoe’s Tale
• 🔜 The Human Division
• 🔜 The End of All Things

✅ 2012 Redshirts

The interdependency

• ✅ 2017 The Collapsing Empire
• ✅ 2018 The Consuming Fire
• 🔜 2020 The Last Emperox

Binti trilogy

• ✅ 2015 Binti
• ✅ 2017 Home
• ✅ 2018 The night Masquerade

The Nsibidi Script Series

• ✅ 2011 Akata Witch
• ✅ 2017 Akata Warrior
• ✅ 2022 Akata woman

Legacy of Orïsha

• ✅ 2018 Children of Blood and Bone
• ✅ 2019 Children of Virtue and Vengeance