Manuel Alvarez
CEO at University of A Coruna
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Alvarez is a veteran technology executive and founder with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning marine electronics, energy control systems, IT infrastructure, and telecommunications. As CEO of Naocontrol and a long-time associated professor at the University of A Coruña, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with academic depth in computer networks, automation, and marine communications. His background includes senior roles in banking IT, product development for gaming and medical equipment, and purchasing management for complex electronic systems, reflecting a rare mix of R&D, operations, and procurement expertise. An advocate for accessible documentation, he has contributed Spanish translations and corrections to the CakePHP docs to improve developer onboarding for Spanish-speaking communities. Based in A Coruña, he pairs systems-level thinking with practical engineering, often bridging classroom theory and real-world deployments in networking and embedded systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Engineer, Telecommunications, Electronics, Senior Engineer, Telecommunications, Electronics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Github Skills (4)
restructuredtext10
cakephp10
documentation10
spanish10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cakephp/docs
Feb 2017 - May 2017
CakePHP CookBook
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:41 commits, 25 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the documentation of the CakePHP framework. Their commits focused on translating and correcting existing documentation pages into Spanish. The changes include updating the titles, fixing formatting issues, and implementing the translation of pages related to the Bookmarker tutorial, the 404 page, migration guides, and various other documentation sections. The user's work aims to improve the accessibility and clarity of the documentation for Spanish-speaking users.
phpcookbookcakephp
jmanubarreiro/docs
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 43 pushes, 48 branches in 2 months
phpcookbookcakephp
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