Carlos Fuentes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 9 years of experience designing cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and identity/access management. He has led product-focused teams at companies like Taxfix and currently drives engineering work at Auth0 by Okta, combining hands-on development with architectural consultancy for cloud migrations. Carlos is an active open-source contributor to prominent Node.js projects such as undici and Fastify, where his work on HTTP redirect handling, HTTP/2 support, and test coverage has improved networking reliability in widely used libraries. His background spans real-time, bidirectional communications and bootstrapping MVPs for startups, reflecting a mix of startup agility and enterprise-grade engineering. He holds a degree in Computer Science Administration and brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to delivering user-focused solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Informática, 94, Licenciatura, Informática, 94 at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Contributions:510 reviews, 21 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to improving test coverage and fixing bugs within the Fastify framework. They focused on enhancing test cases, removing obsolete code, and addressing issues related to stream handling and HTTP methods like HEAD. Additionally, the user made changes to validation logic and implemented features such as allowing content-length headers for empty bodies in HEAD requests. These contributions aimed to improve the framework's reliability and functionality.
An HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:795 reviews, 10 commits, 166 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Carlos made significant contributions to the `nodejs/undici` repository, an HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js. Their commits focused on implementing and testing features related to HTTP redirects, including same-origin redirects and handling various HTTP status codes. The user also added support for local addresses and the connection header. Moreover, the user implemented functionality for HTTP/2, demonstrating experience with modern networking protocols.
node-jshttp-clientjavascriptnodejsscratch
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Carlos Fuentes - Senior Software Engineer at Auth0 by Okta