I'M DAMALGA

I've worked as a graphic designer and front-end developer for the last 10 years, building interfaces with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I have worked with React and Vue: I understand how both work and which one fits each case. I have a huge devotion for managing the DOM efficiently, fast loading, pixel-perfect responsive design. Clean, reusable and maintainable components. I'm comfortable with GNU/Linux, Git and the terminal, with hands-on experience in networking and sysadmin stuff. Design fascinates me, but so does infrastructure; how servers send data to browsers to render information.

VISUAL DESIGNER AND WEB DEVELOPER

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EDUCATION

Microcredential in Bash.
Universidad Carlos III (Madrid)
(Oct 2025)

A short and focused training on shell scripting.

50h on-site course in Javascript.
Asociación Española de
Programadores Informáticos
(Sep 2019 - Oct 2019)

300h on-site course + final project in web design and development. Escuela CICE.
(Oct 2016 - Jun 2017)

These courses took me from design into development, clarifying how I think about web structure, coding and especially front-end logic.

Erasmus+ in Aalto University school of arts, design and architecture (Finland).
(Aug 2015 - Dec 2015)

Graphic Design Degree in the Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid (ESDM).
(Sep 2012 - Jun 2017)

To finish my degree and before presenting my final degree project, I started working for one of Caser's marketing departments from Jan to Jun 2016.

WORK EXPERIENCE

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Front-end developer,
Vocento.
(Mar 2023 - Jan 2026).

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Hybrid Designer,
Cheil Spain.
(Jan 2020 - Dec 2022).

* Career gap to develop the Polymorphism Records.

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Front-layout developer,
Amaris.
(Jun 2018 - Dec 2018).

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Front-layout developer,
Nateevo (Vass Group).
(Jan 2018 - Jun 2018).

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Research scholarship,
GING (ETSIT / UPM).
(Sep 2016 - Jun 2017).

PROJECTS

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Alcarcia
Artist / Producer
Website · About

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Polymorphism Records
Record label
Website · About

Both projects take electronic music as their starting point. I collect vinyls and I'm fascinated by synths, drum machines and basically any gadget or device that makes noise.

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Hackeed
E-commerce
Website · About

Open tech store and living lab driven by technology, economy, philosophy and curiosity.

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MeowRawr
Feline wiki
Website · About

A feline wiki and a self-hosting experiment. 2 loves in 1 place: Cats and a Raspberry Pi serving a website.

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Homelab
Personal infrastructure
Description

A handful of machines, each with its own name, running the services I use every day. Prologue, three chapters and an epilogue.

SKILLS

Design and Composition

With a strong mix of references and resources, I bring brand values to life across digital and print media. Check out my Behance for some of my favorite projects from my visual journey.

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I build interfaces from the ground up, keeping structure and style in sync. HTML and CSS are my foundation, extended with Sass for modular styling. For static sites, Handlebars and/or 11ty is my weapon to deploy fast.

I've worked across many cores and CMSs, adapting easily to different setups and workflows.

javascript node

When it comes to interaction and logic I stay close to vanilla JavaScript. I'm comfortable enough with React, but Vue fits better with how I build and think. It lets me handle both templating and state with clarity.

I used to use Gulp for styling automations and live reload. Also Webpack for bundling, but Vite now handles all of that faster and cleaner.

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I work comfortably with Git. I've tried AI tools like Claude Code. I must recognize its impact in software development without forgetting it's built on the collective human knowledge found in docs and places like StackOverflow.

I still value going to the source and understanding what each line does before anything.

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Bash really fascinates me and combining it with CLI tools to do more complex tasks drives me crazy. I work comfortably in GNU/Linux and the terminal.

I use OpenWrt routers and Raspberry Pis to self-host, digging into VPNs, DNS, Docker and how TCP/IP works underneath.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Graphic tools

photoshop

illustrator

indesign

Adobe’s not the only one in the game. I also work with Figma, I love it because it loads in the browser so fast and it’s easy collaborate with others.

Video tools

Premiere

After Effects

I often edit videos like I would with Premiere, but using Kdenlive. It’s lightweight, powerful and open source! For post-production, I still use After Effects.

Audio tools

Ableton

I’ve recently dived into the world of making music through code libraries like Strudel, and I feel it’s given my mind a new abstraction layer.

LANGUAGES

INTERESTS

music, films and digital arts

Music, cinema
& digital arts

science, nature and technology

Science, Nature
& Technology

trips, vehicles and narratives

Trips, vehicles
& narratives

EXTRA

El caballo me salvó la vida: Audiovisual piece about a guy who doesn't know what he's doing but does it anyway.

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About Basketball, Jokic, horses and record labels. Code, road and bottom-shelf barstool philosophy. This is a Roadtrip from Madrid to as far as one could get and one day will.

CONTACT

BYE!

P.S. Follow me on (blue)sky or (red)dit.
I kinda like the blue/red pill thing...
Have a nice day.

Damian;

Here you don't need to accept any unnecesary cookies, but if you want I can give you a biscuit.

Alcarcia

This project (website) started as a way to understand the basics of React and while at it, share my first steps as an electronic music producer. Here you have the GitHub, feel free to take it and tweek as you want to show you own "bussiness": GitHub.

It's also a way to show my skills as a web layout builder and "strategist" of responsive design and development. Later I started mastering the DOM (document object model) using jQuery, until I realized that everything I could do with that library I could actually do without it.

I've always been the kind of person who works in "default mode" and with the fewest possible dependencies.

That said, Angular, React and Vue all start by stacking a bunch of JavaScript (JS) dependencies... I love JS, but I can't ignore the brutal layer of abstraction the language handles, nor how much this sense of lack of control sometimes overwhelms me.

To deal with that frustration, I think I bought a ThinkPad, put a GNU/Linux distribution on it and started a "new journey" with Bash, scripting on the terminal and well..;) hacking in general.

I'm not giving up JS, I'm not giving up music; I simply don't give up... I enjoy the journey, there is no destination.

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