Alvaro Jara
Ayudante En Curso Gestión De Sistemas Facultad De Ingeniería at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Concepcion, Biobio Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvaro Jara is a sixth-year Ingeniería Civil Informática student from Concepción with nine years of hands-on experience in software development, technical support, and academic assistance. He combines full-stack web work—contributing production MediaWiki configuration and site features—with practical IT operations managing dozens of lab workstations and performing hardware upgrades. As a teaching assistant across programming, systems management, and physics labs, he excels at translating technical concepts for students and streamlining workflows using tools like Python, Excel (pivot tables/graphs), and Bizagi Modeler. He built a bulk Excel import module for a healthcare app during a software practicum, demonstrating an ability to deliver user-focused automation that integrates notifications and data pipelines. Known for collaborative, agile-minded problem solving, he brings proactive responsibility and a focus on continuous improvement to multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
Ingeniería Civil Informática, Computational Science, Ingeniería Civil Informática, Computational Science at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
configuration-management10
locals10
mediawiki10
php10
web-development8
github7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
miraheze/mw-config
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Production MediaWiki configuration
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 31 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributed to configuring settings and functionalities within the MediaWiki environment. Their work involved adding, updating, and fixing settings related to various wikis managed within the `mw-config` repository. This included modifications to `LocalSettings.php` to enable extensions, adjust user permissions, and configure site-specific features. Furthermore, the user added logos and enabled features like the Maps extension.
mirahezewikiproductionmediawiki
Javieravasquez27/Proyecto-TIS-1
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 135 pushes in 4 months
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