Hi there! My name is Miguel Jiménez and I’m a software engineer from sunny Madrid, capital of Spain in southern Europe. I’ve been involved in software and computing since I was a little child when I started to write some code with a ZX Spectrum at the early age of ten years.

Lot of things happened since then. I’m now on my early thirties and I’ve been active in software development and architecting enterprise systems since the beginning of 1998 and a little earlier within the Internet. I’ve spend most of my career with Microsoft technologies such as the .NET Framework and SQL Server at the earlier projects and Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, AJAX and Windows Communication Foundation at the latest projects. Anyway I also love other technologies like XHTML, CSS and parts of some Agile methodologies.

During the last four years I dedicated a lot effort on creating communities in Spain like the Madrid .NET User Group. During that time, I also helped to promote INETA, offering myself as volunteer to locally coordinate processes with other User Groups. I’ve also spend some time speaking at local events like MSDN Webcasts, Developer Days, ReMIX, Tech Days and other small tours across different cities together with a couple of years working at TechEd’s Ask The Expert booths.

I’m actually driving some knowledge into how people interact with software and devices, thinking how to improve processes that seem to hate people and so people hate them in return. I see myself through an strange lens because I’ve been part of the European Demoscene during the first stages of the 90’s and that experience created an strange mix of code and design in my mind. Although I’m not proficient with graphic design I’m able to work on conceptual stages of designing sites, applications and interactions. I think this is maybe related to the conceptual creation process small pieces of art within the demoscene.

I really love the process of creating new patterns for software and human beings hope I can still work within this field for a long time. For the last months I’m feeling really into user experience, designing processes, improving systems user interfaces and working with front-end technologies.

So this is me and what I am interested in.

If you feel like joining this conversation just drop me a comment or contact me. And, by the way, here you have my web 2.0 footprint: