Andrew Fernandes
Principal at Eagle Crest Labs
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Fernandes is a principal technologist and founder with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering hardware-adjacent software, embedded systems, mobile apps, and cloud-native distributed services for mission-critical government and defense use. He architects and ships end-to-end platforms that combine embedded firmware, secure mobile clients, and scalable cloud backends to support intelligence, surveillance, cyber, and operational training systems. His career spans systems engineering for naval signal processing, Android secure-communications and mapping apps, and leadership roles directing cyber programs and multi-disciplinary teams. Known for moving prototypes to field-ready deployments, he blends low-level DSP/embedded work (CUDA, C/C++, MATLAB) with modern CI/CD and cloud practices. Based in Virginia, he pairs an MS in Electrical Engineering with a pragmatic product mindset that bridges research, operational requirements, and production delivery. An often-overlooked strength is his repeated role as integrator—bringing hardware, software, and operational stakeholders together to produce reliable, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at George Mason University
Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (65)
google-maps10
pbkdf210
client-library10
aes-encryption10
android-library10
google-maps-api10
webservice10
file-encryption10
encryption9
logger9
aws9
logging9
java9
kotlin-multiplatform8
golang8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rockaport/alice
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Java AES encryption library
Contributions:8 releases, 48 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
aes-encryptionjavaencryptionpbkdf2java-library
rockaport/lorem-pixel
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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