Christian Fernandez is a Director of Software Engineering in Oakland with 13 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and leading engineering teams for Fortune 500 clients. He combines deep hands-on systems knowledge—from C++ mapping engines and SIP integration to Python-driven Hadoop/Hive data lakes—with a passion for teaching and founder-level entrepreneurship. As the founder and former CTO of Hackbright Academy, he created curriculum and trained hundreds of engineers while advancing diversity-focused initiatives and advising policy efforts on bootcamps. Known for tackling hard engineering problems end-to-end, he moves comfortably between low-level performance tuning and architecting production-ready ingestion frameworks.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
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