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mikisabate@gmail.com - @mssola - @miquelssola - Scholar

Education

RISC-V Foundational Associate
December 2024
RISC-V International (see certification)
Master’s Degree in Advanced Research in Humanistic Studies
October 2022 - September 2023
Speciality in Linguistic and Literary Studies
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
University extension course:
October 2020 - May 2021
«The discourse on the promotion of the catalan language: perspectives and arguments»
Centre de Recerca en Sociolingüística i Comunicació (CUSC)
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Bachelor’s Degree in Catalan Language and Literature
September 2016 - January 2022
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
September 2008 - June 2014
Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Experience

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer at SUSE
December 2020 - Present
Currently maintaining, inside of the SCC team, all those tools that make possible the interactions between customers and SUSE’s software through subscriptions.
Councilor at Consell Comarcal de l'Anoia
October 2020 - July 2023
Taking this position from representatives that left office early, in october 2020 I took the office of Councilor and spokesman of the CUP party. I left office at the end of the term.
Councilor at Capellades' Town Hall
Juny 2019 - Present
In the municipal elections celebrated in may 2019, I was nominated as councilor at Capellades for the Vila de Capellades - CUP party. When forming up the government of the Town Hall, I was nominated as councilor of Youth, Citizen Participation and Transparency; which I renounced in March 2023. In the municipal elections celebrated in may 2023 I was reelected as councilor at Capellades for the same party, but remaining at the opposition this time.
Software Developer at SUSE
June 2015 - November 2020
  • Started the Docker team at SUSE, which evolved into the SUSE CaaS Platform product (nowadays merged inside of the SUSE Rancher product), an enterprise class container management solution based on Kubernetes.
  • Maintained tools such as Portus (a Ruby on Rails application with Vue.js on the frontend) and zypper-docker (a Go CLI tool for patching and updating SUSE-based images). I have been the main contributor to these projects, and I have also been responsible for packaging and releasing them both as RPM packages and Docker images (by using OBS).
  • Helped to create skuba, a CLI tool written in Go that was being used to orchestrate the Kubernetes pieces underneath SUSE CaaS Platform.
  • Given numerous talks, workshops and trainings about container-related technologies. I have also contributed with talks and workshops for SUSECon (main company event) in 2016, 2017 and 2019.
Web developer at Saifor
February 2012 - March 2015
Full-stack developer at Saifor. In there I developed a set of internal web applications written in PHP and PostgreSQL.
Developer at KDE
January 2011 - March 2015
I was involved with the KDE free software project. I was mainly focused on KDevelop, where I was the maintainer for its Ruby support, and Kate.
Student at Google Summer of Code
April 2012 - August 2012
I spent the summer of 2012 working on a Google Summer of Code (GSoC). During this time I stabilized the KDevelop Ruby support successfully.

Technical skills

Languages