J Villafañe is a seasoned technology leader and Technical Director with over two decades of experience guiding front-end and back-end integration across eCommerce, travel, and financial services. He combines hands-on front-end architecture with full-stack awareness, proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Java, Ruby, and IBM DB2/MySQL to deliver cohesive, scalable systems. As a leader at Globant since 2018, he drives team development, pre-sales efforts, and engineering mentoring, while delivering landmark projects such as Gucci.com, American Express Travel, and the Goodyear US redesign. His track record includes high-visibility deployments like the Windows 8 About Me app and Adobe AEM implementations for T-Mobile.com, underscoring his ability to bridge design and backend integration. An active open-source contributor, he has improved HTML5 documentation and chaired front-end initiatives in the Dive Into HTML5 ecosystem. Based in Rosario, Argentina, he also teaches programming at EducacionIT, reinforcing his commitment to community and knowledge transfer.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Analista Universitario en Sistemas de Información / Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology, Analista Universitario en Sistemas de Información / Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology at Universidad del Centro Educativo Latinoamericano
Information Technology, Information Technology at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Finance & Accounting Programme, Economics, Finance & Accounting Programme, Economics at University of La Verne
First Certificate of English (FCE), First Certificate of English (FCE) at Cambridge University
Contributions summary:J primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, specifically focusing on HTML and CSS modifications. They addressed broken links, updated the documentation for various HTML5 features, including geolocation and input types, and improved the code examples. The user also refactored the code related to HTML5 video and geolocation APIs, ensuring compatibility with older browsers.
Mobile and Desktop Javascript Library for Geolocation Fallback. Based on geo-location-javascript framework (http://code.google.com/p/geo-location-javascript).
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