Summary
Carlos Fernández is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and APIs, currently at Zendesk after leading backend efforts on Zendesk AI agents. He combines hands-on backend specialization with a habit of touching frontend and infrastructure work—databases, Unix servers, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines—rooted in a career that began creating full-stack side projects from scratch. He has held technical leadership roles including CTO and Lead Backend Engineer, shipping production systems in languages and frameworks from PHP/Laravel and Python/Django to Node/TypeScript and Vue. Comfortable moving between code and architecture, he focuses on pragmatic delivery and maintainable design, often prioritizing the "how" as much as the result. Based in Málaga, Spain, he brings startup grit and cross-stack fluency to large-scale product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachillerato Ciencias sociales, Bachillerato Ciencias sociales at Las Américas
Técnico Superior Desarrollo de aplicaciones web, Técnico Superior Desarrollo de aplicaciones web at Luis Vives
Spanish, English