Aurea Hernandez
Principal Software Engineer at IBM
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAurea Hernandez is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and leading Java web and cloud-native applications across fintech, telecom, and open-source ecosystems. She blends hands-on backend work—contributing Spring and scheduling integrations to the high-profile Quarkus project—with team coaching and agile transformation as a certified Scrum Master since 2012. Her career spans senior roles at Red Hat and IBM, where she focused on Spring Boot/Cloud integration, developer experience, and production-grade microservices on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Known for high standards in code quality, review practices and refactoring, she also drives CI/CD and infrastructure improvements. Comfortable in multicultural teams, she combines technical depth with strong communication and people leadership, often acting as a technical role model and mentor. An interesting detail: she has directly enhanced Quarkus with Spring Data JPA and @Scheduled support, bridging two major Java ecosystems for wider developer adoption.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Java course. 250 hours.Erasmus scholarship, Erasmus scholarship at ISAIP - ESAIPTelecommunications Engineer Bachelor Degree Télécommunications – Télématique, Telecommunications Engineer Bachelor Degree Télécommunications – Télématique at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
bash10
java10
javas10
quarkus10
maven10
rest-api10
spring-data-jpa10
springframework10
spring-security9
jpa9
microservices8
docker8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
quarkusio/quarkus-workshops
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Hosts Quarkus related workshops
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 43 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aurea primarily worked on adapting the Quarkus workshop to a BBVA workshop, which involved modifications to the application's REST endpoints and UI. They made changes to the `rest-fight` and `rest-hero` modules, and integrated with the UI. Additionally, the user was involved in refactoring documentation and fixing issues related to documentation publishing, using tools like `rsync` and `git`. The user also worked on setting up the infrastructure.
javahostsquarkus
quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Quarkus quickstart code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aurea contributed to multiple quickstarts within the Quarkus framework. Their work involved adding Spring Security, Spring Scheduled, and Stork Kubernetes service discovery examples. Furthermore, they added a custom filter example and a Stork DNS quickstart, indicating a focus on expanding and improving Quarkus's capabilities for different use cases. The user also refactored code to utilize the resteasy-reactive extension.
spring-bootjavaquarkus
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