Hi. I'm Nuno Balbona
Spanish full-stack developer, sysadmin, and technical founder, with a passion for software that connects people. ✌
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Projects
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Curious Cat
- Curious cat is a Q&A social network used by more than one and a half million people every day, where you can ask and receive questions, sometimes anonymously.
- I cofounded Curious Cat 2016, and we were acquired by Vonvon Inc two years after. I'm currently working at Vonvon, developing Curious Cat and other projects
- Scaling was one of the main challenges, but with horizontally scaling PHP servers, and a memcached layer in front of a MariaDB database it currently serves +2B requests per month
Up close and personal
- I'm @Balbonator in twitter
- You can leave me a mail at [email protected]
- Or connect with me on LinkedIn
Education
I started programming at age 11, and taught myself how to code to be able to bring my ideas into life. I pursued a CS degree for a couple of years, but ultimately decided it wasn't worth my time.
I mainly deliver using common web technologies (Vue, React, PHP, Node.js...) But I always enjoy trying new things
Other stuff
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Brawlmance
- Brawlmance provides statistics for the videogame Brawlhalla
- It has mantained a small but steady user base (~250 users/day) for a couple of years, mainly coming from search engines
- It crawls 500k players every day, and keeps track of the global trends
- Conway Engine: A moderately performant engine for Conway's Game of Life
- Node Image Hash: Perceptual image hash for node.js
- JS Launchpad: Library that uses the Web MIDI API to interact with the Launchpad Mk1
- The nipple game: They aren't that different
- DVD: Videogames!
Me
- My mother tongues are Spanish and Galician, but I also speak English at a professional level. (And I understand Portuguese fairly well!!)
- I was born in 1997, and grew up in a tiny town in Galicia, Spain
- Co-founded a web hosting service (I'm no longer involved, tho)
- Worked as a freelancer since 16, for different local business and multinational corporations