Alvaro Fernandez
Senior Application Engineer
Friendswood, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlvaro Fernandez is a Senior Application Engineer with two decades of experience applying advanced numerical methods and software optimization across Fortran, Python, C, Java and C#. He holds a PhD from Rice University and has specialized in high-performance computing, parallelization (MPI/OpenMP), and architecture-driven kernel tuning for domains including geophysics, reservoir simulation and aerospace. A pragmatic engineer and former AMD senior technical staffer, he blends pre-sales and proposal experience with hands-on benchmarking and proof-of-concept development for cloud and on-prem server platforms. He also runs a consulting practice focused on perishable commodity logistics and traceability, pairing domain expertise with data-driven tooling (MySQL, NoSQL, multivalue DBs). Currently helping push RISC-V cluster-on-board performance at Inspire Semiconductor, he quietly combines deep scientific computing pedigree with practical product and sales impact.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Rice University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
oauth9
server-side9
cpp8
rest8
chat3
pdf3
script3
bash2
qdrant2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
webappsdk/granada
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
No longer maintained - Granada is a structured layer on top of C++ REST SDK for building server applications in C++. Granada implements sessions, server side plug-in framework, C++ OAuth 2.0 server, data storage access, server script running, server browsing.
Contributions:8 releases, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 2 months
cppoauthrestserver-side
chaners-com/quickresolve
Aug 2025 - Oct 2025
A microservices-based RAG platform that supports multi-format document parsing, semantic search, and conversational AI, powered by Google AI and Qdrant.
Contributions:24 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
chatpdfpdf-ragqdrantqdrant-rag
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