Alejandro Pérez
Software Engineer at Political Watch
Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Pérez is a seasoned software engineer and designer with 11 years blending digital design, motion graphics and full-stack web development. Currently at Political Watch and previously leading digital media and open government projects for Cádiz City Council, he bridges creative direction with production-grade engineering. He holds advanced degrees in motion graphics and is finishing a B.Eng. in IT while pursuing graduate studies in Data Science, reflecting a strong shift toward deep learning and AI applied to arts and design. An active open-source contributor, he improved Next.js font support in the popular Storybook project, showing attention to developer experience and build tooling. Comfortable across front-end frameworks, Webpack/Babel configs and data-driven projects, he brings a rare mix of visual craft and engineering rigor. Colleagues value him for translating complex civic communication needs into polished, testable web products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Graphic and Multimedia Design, BA, Graphic and Multimedia Design at Escuela Arte GranadaMA, Motion Graphics, MA, Motion Graphics at BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i DissenyNanodegree, Deep Learning / Computer Vision / Natural Language Processing, Nanodegree, Deep Learning / Computer Vision / Natural Language Processing at UdacityMaster's degree, Data Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Data Science and Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
storybook10
typescript10
nextjs10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
ui-components9
webpack9
babel69
webpacker9
babel-core9
component-kit9
babeljs9
ui-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Mar 2020 - May 2024
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 8 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily contributed to the Next.js framework integration within Storybook, focusing on the `@next/font` support. Their commits involved modifying Babel and Webpack loader configurations to handle font imports from Next.js correctly. They also added tests to ensure that the transformations are working as expected and updated existing files.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
alex-ahumada/next-drupal
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
Next.js for Drupal has everything you need to build a next-generation front-end for your Drupal site: SSG, SSR, and ISR, Multi-site, Authentication, Webforms, Search API, I18n and Preview mode (works with JSON:API and GraphQL).
Contributions:33 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
everythingnext-jsssgfront-endjson-api
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