Álvaro is a passionate software architect and agile enthusiast with over 14 years of experience. He started his career in 2001 coding in Perl and Java, but then quickly focused on Java EE, working for companies like IBM BCS, BEA Systems or Sun Microsystems.
He created his own company, Salenda, in 2005, and since 2007 has specialised in Groovy/Grails, introducing them in Spain by founding Escuela de Groovy, the very first Grails company in Spain. He now works at OCI, the company behind Grails; he is a member of the Grails team at OCI, a Grails committer, and also supports the Spring Security plugins.
Álvaro is a speaker at conferences like GeeCON, JavaLand, JavaZone and Codemotion http://lanyrd.com/profile/alvaro_sanchez/. He has also written several Grails plugins, including Spring Security REST, which provides stateless, RESTful, token based authentication for Grails using OAuth 2 and JWT http://github.com/alvarosanchez
Talks I've Given
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Park Bench Discussion
Featuring Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal, Cédric Champeau, Graeme Rocher and Jeff Brown
More info coming soon!
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Workshop: Lightweight HTTP applications in the JVM with Groovy and Ratpack
Featuring Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal
Ratpackis a set of libraries for writing fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications written in Java 8 or any alternative JVM language that plays well with Java, such as Groovy. The session will start with an introduction aboutRatpack, and what makes it different from other...
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Stateless authentication for microservices
Featuring Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal
This talk is about how to secure your frontend+backend applications using a RESTful approach. As opposed to traditional and monolithic server-side applications (where the HTTP session is used), when your frontend application is running on a browser and not securely from the server, there are few...
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DevQA: make your testers happy with Groovy, Spock and Geb
Featuring Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal
In this talk I will show a live example on how to setup an independent project for functional tests using Gradle, Groovy, Spock and Geb.
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Developing SPI applications using Grails and AngularJS
Featuring Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal
In this talk I will speak about how Grails can fit with a single-page architecture and discuss the pros and cons of developing that kind of applications.
grails mongodb java ggx spi angularjs architecture mvc javascript
Álvaro is a passionate software architect and agile enthusiast with over 14 years of experience. He started his career in 2001 coding in Perl and Java, but then quickly focused on Java EE, working for companies like IBM BCS, BEA Systems or Sun Microsystems.
He created his own company in 2005, Salenda, and since 2007 he specialised on Groovy/Grails, introducing them in Spain by founding Escuela de Groovy, the very first Grails company in Spain. After working at Odobo (a Gibraltar-based startup with an “App Store"-like marketplace for HTML5 gambling games), now he works as Application Architect at 4finance IT.
He is a speaker at conferences like GeeCON, JavaLand, JavaZone and Codemotion (http://lanyrd.com/profile/alvaro_sanchez/). He also has written several Grails plugins, including Spring Security REST, which provides stateless, RESTful, token based authentication for Grails using OAuth 2 and JWT (http://github.com/alvarosanchez).
My Work
Application Architect at 4finance at 4finance IT
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