Bon dia! My name is Alex Orpinell and I am an engineer reskilled to Backend developer.
I was born in Barcelona, where I was raised and took my engineering degree. For the last academic year I was enticed to pursue my studies abroad so I took a double engineering degree program between UPC (Barcelona) and ENSAM (Bordeaux). Then I started off my work experience back in Barcelona with an automotive engineering company (MAZEL). A year later I decided to move to France again, this time Toulouse, to do an advanced master’s degree in aeronautical maintenance at ISAE Supaero. Then I had the chance to work for Airbus at the Saint Eloi pylons factory. At first I was a maintainability engineer as a subcontractor for a French company (Aeroconseil) for three years. Then I joined a Spanish supplier (ARITEX) to co-manage the design and implementation of the A330neo pylon assembly line. Two years later tough, I started missing my hometown and also the permanent travelling was taking its toll on my personal life. Thus, after some hard meditating and having spent over 6 years in France, I decided to quit my job, come back to my hometown, and re-think my career. I then started reskilling myself to software development and today I work as a junior fullstack developer at NTT DATA (Barcelona). I am always eager to level up my knowledge, build projects and try new ways.
- November 2024 A new banking project starts in my work group and I now find myself learning JAVA☕ and microservices!! Seems I need to get competent at the Spring framework for this new project. Incidently, the basic knowledge I gained from C# and Go is being helpful to grasp and interiorize concepts. Learning a new language (appart from learning a new superpower also makes you re-visit the fundamentals).
- July 2024 Lately I've been thinking about learning in my spare time NextJS (I've always used REACT but I think at some point I need to make the step) and perhaps a new language such as Go, C# or Kotlin for backend dev purposes. I find it worthy and future proved.
- June 2024 🕓📅 It's been 6 months already at NTT DATA and here's a summary of my journey and learnings:
- Utilizing Hyperfront, a JS full-stack framework by Basikon, for a banking loan and dealer portal, integrating React, Bootstrap, MongoDB (pipelines, aggregates, projections), and custom API endpoints.
- Implemented Jest for unit testing, ensuring an efficient architecture and single-responsability functions.
- I definitely leveled up my Git skills in this collaborative project and feel confident managing stashes, merges, rebases, conflicts etc.
- Engaging directly with a French client, refreshing my French language skills, and utilizing Poker planning techniques.
- April 2024 I'm happy to have published a new project for the FCB Rink Hockey Veterans Association (Associació de Veterans d'Hoquei Patins del FC Barcelona). I made a static website with React-Vite and Tailwind. Veterans Hoquei Patins I first wanted to make a fullstack app with a KOA backend and a postgresql DB but its for the moment on a different branch, ready to be deployed if they request to have user authentication and blog functionality.
- From December 2023 ⭐🔋I started a new position as junior engineer at NTT DATA in Barcelona!
- June-December 2023 | Involved in ITA-WIKI as backend developer.
- Jan-June 2023 | Backend development bootcamp at Mediatic (Barcelona). The end of bootcamp project is a fullstrack chat web app that can be found in my pinned repositories.
- 2020 - 2022 | Self-taught web development learning (online bootcamps, tutorials etc.)
- 📫 You can reach me at: [email protected]
2018-2022 | Index Futures micro investments. While working with the NinjaTrader graphical software, I became familiar with using basic C# commands and syntax to customize equity indicators. Over time, I decided to devote my energy and time exclusively to programming.
- 2015-2017 | ARITEX as Project Manager for the A330neo Pylon Assembly Line implementation.
- 2012-2015 | AEROCONSEL (AKKA Technologies) as maintainability engineer in Airbus.
- 2012-2012 | ALTEN (A couple months suffised to realize that it wasn't my place).
- 2010-2011 | MAZEL Ingenieros as Quality engineer and later as commercial engineer.
- 2011-2012 | Advanced Master’s degree in Aeronautical Maintenance (ISAE Toulouse, FRANCE)
Double Master's degree in engineering:
- 2002-2009 | Escola Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona (UPC)
- 2008-2010 | (ENSAM Bordeaux)
Extra-curricular education: - 1993-2003 | Musical studies and piano at
Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu
- One of my main passions is piano🎹 music; you can find me on youtube where I post self-made videos in my spare time (@alexpiano or just ALex):
- I also like cooking🍜, bricolage🔨, cats😼, airplanes
✈️ , grow my little orchard🌱🌱.
