development

Fishfishme.com

Role

DEVELOPER / CTO

Timeline

2014 - 2019

The Website.

Fishfishme helps you book fishing trips around the world.

A 500startups company.

The Process.

During 1.5 years two years, I was working as a developer on a team of two, together with the team lead.

After, I got promoted to CTO and during 4 years, I was applying a lot of improvements on the team and processes on the technical area.

The Work. As a developer for 1.5 years.

Symfony 2, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, Bootstrap
Worked on Admin, affiliates, captains, public pages, and API areas
Created a multi-language, multi-currency, multi-domain, and responsive website
Automating deployment to staging & prod servers with push hooks to the git repo instead of old FTP upload process
Linux server administration with Apache and Nginx
Migration to Azure

Symfony 2, jQuery, Ajax, CSS, Bootstrap
Worked on Admin, affiliates, captains, public pages, and API areas
Created a multi-language, multi-currency, multi-domain, and responsive website
Automating deployment to staging & prod servers with push hooks to the git repo instead of old FTP upload process
Linux server administration with Apache and Nginx
Migration to Azure

Tech stack.

The Work. As a CTO for 4 years.

The company moved from Dubai to San Francisco, USA, for VC investing.
Different remote teams spread worldwide: India, Egypt, Dubai, Malaga (Spain) and San Diego (USA), which became a challenge in terms of communication and work due to time differences.
- Implemented some Agile Methodologies and improved processes which increased the team speed by 50%:
  - Use of Scrum methodology as Scrum Master.
  - Creation of staging servers for testing worldwide
  - Workflows redesign: version control, coding standards (PSR), coding good practices and deployment process
  - Unified framework and libraries using Symfony & Docker.
  - Use of JIRA for task management.
  - Use of Slack for team communication.
  - Use of Git for version control.
  - Use of PHPUnit for unit and functional testing methodologies.
  - Improved version control deployment to production with custom commands from old previous FTP upload.
- Hiring process and onboarding 6 team members.
- Training the team in new workflows and work tools to improve performance.
- Whole new implementation of the server infrastructure on Amazon AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB stack configuration) which improved server power by 25%, cutting the expenses by 50%

The company moved from Dubai to San Francisco, USA, for VC investing.
Different remote teams spread worldwide: India, Egypt, Dubai, Malaga (Spain) and San Diego (USA), which became a challenge in terms of communication and work due to time differences.
- Implemented some Agile Methodologies and improved processes which increased the team speed by 50%:
  - Use of Scrum methodology as Scrum Master.
  - Creation of staging servers for testing worldwide
  - Workflows redesign: version control, coding standards (PSR), coding good practices and deployment process
  - Unified framework and libraries using Symfony & Docker.
  - Use of JIRA for task management.
  - Use of Slack for team communication.
  - Use of Git for version control.
  - Use of PHPUnit for unit and functional testing methodologies.
  - Improved version control deployment to production with custom commands from old previous FTP upload.
- Hiring process and onboarding 6 team members.
- Training the team in new workflows and work tools to improve performance.
- Whole new implementation of the server infrastructure on Amazon AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB stack configuration) which improved server power by 25%, cutting the expenses by 50%

Tech stack.

The Upgraded Product.

The project has been evolving and adapting to the needs of the market, leading to the birth of the CaptainPanel proposal, focused on a more specific vertical.

Ready to get your business out there?

let’s make something special

Ready to get your business out there?

let’s make something special

Ready to get your business out there?

let’s make something special