Alejandro Hernandez
Principal Software Engineer & Co-founder at Makai Digital
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Hernandez is a Principal Software Engineer and co-founder based in Miami with 11 years of experience designing secure, high-performance web systems and driving cloud-native transformations. He has led modernization efforts at Carnival Cruise Line—rewriting legacy ASP.NET apps to ASP.NET Core, standardizing React front-ends, and pushing containerization, Kubernetes, and robust CI/CD and observability. At enterprise scale he’s delivered architecture leadership and operational improvements for Carnival and Restaurant Brands International, and now applies that expertise to building products at Makai Digital. A pragmatic optimizer, he has contributed performance-sensitive fixes to the popular NLog .NET logging library, reducing memory allocations in core logging paths and improving layout renderers. He blends hands-on coding, mentoring, and architectural vision, with a strong focus on security, DevOps, and measurable efficiency gains.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Florida International University
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
nlog10
logging10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
logger10
csharp10
performance-optimization10
structured-logging10
dotnet-core10
netstandard10
memory-management9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NLog/NLog
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
NLog - Advanced and Structured Logging for Various .NET Platforms
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 45 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro focused on optimizing the NLog library for memory efficiency. Their contributions include reducing memory allocations within the core logging logic, specifically by replacing `foreach` loops with `for` loops to avoid enumerator creation. They also addressed memory usage in layout renderers, particularly for CSV and JSON layouts. Furthermore, they added functionality for handling message overflow in the EventLogTarget, providing options for truncation, splitting, or discarding messages that exceed the maximum allowed size.
structured-loggingloggingnetstandard13c-sharpuwp
epignosisx/vcr.net
Apr 2019 - May 2020
Record your .NET Core test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
Contributions:47 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dotnetreplaytestingrunsnet-core
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