Bernardo Gomez-meza
Technical Assistance And Consultation Intern
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBernardo Gomez-meza is a bilingual MSW candidate at UNC with 15 years of diverse experience bridging direct support, program coordination, research, and technical assistance to expand mental health access for Latine communities in North Carolina. He currently supports El Futuro’s ALMA technical assistance program while contributing to community-based research at UNC that evaluates behavioral health interventions at the intersection of legal systems. His background includes hands-on roles at Residential Services, Inc., where he progressed from direct support to coordination, demonstrating frontline service delivery paired with operational insight. Unusually for a social work professional, Bernardo also contributes code to open-source backend projects—helping improve GraphQL tooling like Netflix’s DGS framework by fixing instrumentation, enhancing metrics, and adding efficiency features—bringing a rare mix of technical fluency to behavioral health implementation work.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Social Work - MSW Social Work, Master of Social Work - MSW Social Work at UNC School of Social WorkAssociate of Science - AS, Associate of Science - AS at Wilkes Early College High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Psychology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (14)
graphql10
javas10
micrometer10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
java10
spring-boot10
testing10
performance-optimization9
database-design6
configuration-file6
grails6
rest6
plugin6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/dgs-framework
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
GraphQL for Java with Spring Boot made easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 248 reviews, 421 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Bernardo primarily focused on enhancing the DGS (GraphQL for Java with Spring Boot) framework. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to instrumentation, refactoring tests for data loaders, and supporting the introduction of features such as Automated Persisted Queries (APQ) for improved efficiency. Furthermore, the user implemented features and fixed issues related to the metrics system, which provides telemetry for GraphQL queries. They also worked on improving test coverage and stability.
spring-bootdgsgraphql-javaspringgraphql
Netflix/dgs-examples-java
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 reviews, 74 commits, 70 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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