Posted by Lyanne Alfaro, DevRel Program Supervisor, Google Developer Studio
Developer Journey is a month-to-month collection highlighting numerous and international builders sharing relatable challenges, alternatives, and wins of their journey. Each month, we’ll highlight builders around the globe, the Google instruments they leverage, and the type of merchandise they’re constructing.
In celebration of Hispanic and Latin Heritage, this month we spoke with builders from Mexico and Spain.
Estela Franco
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Barcelona, Spain
Net Efficiency Specialist
What distinctive views do you consider you deliver to the tech trade as a Hispanic developer? How do your cultural experiences affect your strategy to problem-solving and innovation?
We Spanish individuals love speaking and interacting with different individuals. We have a tendency to talk so much, and we deliver that to all areas of our lives, together with improvement. I get pleasure from discussing tasks, understanding consumer wants and use circumstances, difficult friends, and offering different concepts that weren’t initially thought of. Each developer has their very own background and experiences, and that is one thing that any challenge can leverage, so having an area the place the group can safely have this sort of dialogue could be very helpful.
What Google instruments have you ever used to construct?
As a Net Efficiency specialist, I exploit Chrome, PageSpeed Insights API, Huge Question, CrUX API, and Looker Studio. With these instruments, I create microsites and dashboards to watch and analyze internet efficiency.
Which software has been your favourite to make use of? Why?
I like the CrUX API and all the knowledge you will get from it. It is tremendous useful to know how your customers expertise your web site and the way your opponents are performing. Offering an excellent consumer expertise to your customers is as necessary as understanding how your web site is performing out there versus opponents’ web sites.
The CrUX API documentation offers sufficient info and examples to create your request and get helpful information that you’ll convert into insights to establish points/bottlenecks and enhance your web site.
Inform us about one thing you have constructed up to now utilizing Google instruments.
I created a primary and easy CrUX information explorer. It makes use of the CrUX API (for getting the information) and Firebase (for the authentication). This software, which continues to be a piece in progress, permits you to visually get the Core Net Vitals’ values for any web site or internet web page you need to verify, primarily based on CrUX information.
What is going to you create with Google Bard?
Google Bard is a superb software which you need to use to create dev tasks. It will not develop them for you, however it can save you loads of time because of it. At present, I am not planning to create any particular challenge utilizing Google Bard, however any challenge I create will most likely get some assist from it.
What recommendation would you give somebody beginning of their developer journey?
- Begin from the start. You first want to know the basics earlier than studying a framework or a selected expertise. Being proficient on the basics will make the remainder simpler.
- Do not stroll this journey alone. Get assist from a neighborhood. Fortunately, there are tons of of tech communities you will get assist from! You’ll most likely discover some difficulties throughout this journey and having this assist will enable you to undergo them and remedy them sooner.
- Do not be afraid to ask. You possibly can ask your questions in a neighborhood or you can even ask them to Google (and Google Bard). Belief me, you are not the primary individual to have that query. Asking is one of the simplest ways to get a solution.
What technological developments or traits do you consider have the potential to positively influence Hispanic communities, each regionally and globally?
Actual-time translators utilizing AI is usually a game-changer. Though Spanish is without doubt one of the most ceaselessly spoken languages on the earth, English is required in lots of fields and the tech trade is one in all them.
At present, it may be tougher to have a profitable developer journey should you do not communicate English, and never all Hispanic/Latinx communities communicate English. Having the instruments to correctly talk with tech individuals even should you do not communicate English may open new alternatives to those communities.
Alba Silvente Fuentes
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Amsterdam, Netherlands by the use of Alicante, Spain
Google Developer Professional, Net Applied sciences
Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok (a Headless CMS)
What distinctive views do you consider you deliver to the tech trade as a Hispanic developer? How do your cultural experiences affect your strategy to problem-solving and innovation?
When coding or fixing issues, one high quality that has at all times been current in my tradition is ardour. Whereas ardour just isn’t unique to Latinx or Hispanic individuals, it is part of our tradition to strategy duties with dedication, effort, and care.
To forestall myself from giving in to a really tough bug, I depend on my humorousness and open communication. Whether or not at work or at residence, I talk overtly about what is occurring to me, looking for assist or collaborating on an answer. I typically use humor to diffuse rigidity and discover the humorous facet of irritating conditions. This helps me to clear my thoughts of ideas that block the seek for an answer.
Relating to innovation, I deal with small, on a regular basis issues that may enhance my every day life. It is because I’ve been taught to worth small particulars over greater ones.
What Google instruments have you ever used to construct?
One among my first experiences with Google applied sciences was once I was finding out at college and I made a decision to study Android improvement in my free time, which was then utilizing Java as its official language. Nevertheless, after beginning my profession and discovering my ardour for frontend improvement, my first full-time job as a frontend developer concerned utilizing Angular.
All through my skilled journey, I’ve relied closely on Google’s important instruments equivalent to DevTools, Lighthouse, and Web page pace. These instruments have turn out to be an integral a part of my every day routine. And over the previous two years, I’ve actively participated in growing Chrome Extensions and conducting quite a few Flutter workshops.
Which software has been your favourite to make use of? Why?
In my view, essentially the most useful instruments are DevTools and Net Vitals. Nevertheless, if I had to decide on a favourite, I might say it’s the Chrome Extensions Manifest. I had a good time growing extensions and exploring all of the completely different potentialities. Whether or not I used to be scraping web sites for helpful info or extending performance, it was at all times a enjoyable and rewarding expertise.
Inform us about one thing you have constructed up to now utilizing Google instruments.
The query needs to be what have you ever developed with out using Google instruments, as a result of I believe there hasn’t been a challenge the place I have not used DevTools or Net Vitals since I deal with the frontend. For those who have been to verify my GitHub, practically 90% of my tasks have undergone testing with Lighthouse in an effort to guarantee primary efficiency enhancements.
Please share a memorable challenge the place you integrated parts of your heritage into the design or performance? How did this enrich the consumer expertise?
Throughout my first job, I used to be part of a marketing campaign challenge for wines from the Alicante area known as “#EnamórateDeUnAlicantino” (translating to “#FallInLoveWithAnAlcantino”). The marketing campaign had a web site that includes a love type to assist individuals discover the wine that finest suited their style. Every wine was related to an individual, and each query within the type had an area meals merchandise linked to it, equivalent to Valencia oranges. I had loads of enjoyable engaged on it.
What is going to you create with Google Bard?
Up till now, I’ve utilized generative AI to help me in refining my content material. It has been particularly useful in synthesizing detailed info for my podcasts, articles, and talks. On one event, I even used it to create the idea of an extension, and whereas the end result was first rate, I needed to make a number of changes. Nonetheless, it was a helpful experiment. Transferring ahead, I plan to additional discover the potential of AI and maybe even use it to generate assessments for my code or troubleshoot bugs out of pure curiosity.
What recommendation would you give somebody beginning of their developer journey?
My advice for rookies is to start out by specializing in one factor that they get pleasure from, taking the time to know the fundamentals and discover their limits with out speeding by the method. It is very important stay calm and benefit from the journey.
What technological developments or traits do you consider have the potential to positively influence Hispanic communities, each regionally and globally?
Contemplating our previous limitations with languages apart from Spanish as a consequence of our historic previous, there are nonetheless many individuals who face a language barrier and can’t entry all the knowledge they want. Nevertheless, because of developments in AI, chatbots like Bard, and applied sciences like VR glasses, we are able to now overcome this hurdle. These instruments permit us to translate in real-time because the speaker shares their story, or enhance automated subtitles, enabling us to achieve a wider viewers than ever earlier than.
Juan Guillermo Gómez
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Mexico Metropolis, Mexico
Google Developer Professional, Firebase, ML, Google Cloud Platform, Kotlin
Tech Lead
What distinctive views do you consider you deliver to the tech trade as a Latino developer? How do your cultural experiences affect your strategy to problem-solving and innovation?
The developer neighborhood is powerful and really united in Latin America. We even have relationships with different communities around the globe, which permit progress in our skilled profession. In some circumstances, there’s a scarcity of sources, however this isn’t a barrier, however somewhat a motivation. We will study so much about expertise by visiting locations and networking.
What Google instruments have you ever used to construct?
I’ve used loads of instruments. I’ve used a number of instruments for Android purposes, and loads of companies through Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Go, TensorFlow, and extra.
Which software has been your favourite to make use of? Why?
I like two instruments: Firebase and GCP. These instruments have a bunch of companies that let you construct apps, monitor their efficiency, consumer conduct, progress, and extra. You possibly can create purposes with the assist of Google.
Inform us about one thing you have constructed up to now utilizing Google instruments.
I’ve created cellular purposes for well being companies and purposes for a safety companies firm. Within the final 4 years, I’ve created an app known as “Wordbox English” with an excellent group. Wordbox is an software that permits you to study English through tv collection and films in an entertaining method.
Please share a memorable challenge the place you integrated parts of your heritage into the design or performance? How did this enrich the consumer expertise?
Wordbox English is a good software which helps the consumer study one other language in an entertaining method. To create new options and modules, we frequently work with our customers and yield nice outcomes. Due to this, our customers like to study.
What recommendation would you give somebody beginning of their developer journey?
Be taught and apply every single day. There are lots of instruments, movies, and academic platforms the place you may study. Be taught to like issues and challenges. You possibly can belong to a neighborhood with different individuals with whom you may develop.
What technological developments or traits do you consider have the potential to positively influence Latin communities, each regionally and globally?
AI and machine studying. These accelerated advances let you construct apps and study sooner. You possibly can innovate and add extra worth to customers.
