Claudio Fernandez
Managing Director at Blue Alba
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolClaudio Fernandez is a seasoned managing director and software engineer with over 22 years solving high-performance, high-availability problems for financial markets and hedge funds. He has progressed from Java developer and technical lead roles at CME Group and Point72 to director and now managing director at Blue Alba, bringing deep experience in performance engineering and architecture. Claudio pairs hands-on system design with team coaching and academic teaching—he taught advanced object-oriented programming, software development practices, and persistence strategies—sharpening his communication and leadership skills. He specializes in simplifying complex technical challenges into pragmatic, reliable solutions for latency-sensitive trading environments. Based in Stamford, CT, he blends practical industry delivery with an educator’s mindset, making him effective at scaling both systems and teams. An engineer by training from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, he often operates at the intersection of code, performance tuning, and people development.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Information Systems, Engineer, Information Systems at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
1,848reputation
132kreached
72answers
3questions
java
top-5%
Github Skills (80)
expression-language9
business-rules9
rule-based9
java9
rule9
parser8
tabular8
docker-desktop8
windowing8
parse8
ordinal8
engine7
parameterized7
rendering7
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bluealba/rules-js
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
A simple rule-engine for javascript
Contributions:10 releases, 53 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 3 months
business-rulesrulejavascriptrule-basedengine
bluealba/gics
Sep 2017 - Jan 2021
A Javascript library to parse and manipulate GICS codes
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 8 commits in 3 years 4 months
javascriptjavascript-libraryparseparser
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