Cristian Hernández
Software Engineer at Bird
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCristian Hernández is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently contributing at Bird in Los Angeles. His background spans Android development to backend engineering at companies like Scopely and Bird, reflecting a practical full-stack fluency and production focus. An avid code "necromancer," he also contributes to notable open-source projects such as Apache Flink, where he improves documentation and reliability of connectors and internal metrics. Comfortable across Java and Scala ecosystems, he combines hands-on bug fixes with system-minded improvements that help teams operate more predictably. Bilingual and internationally educated, he blends global perspective with a pragmatic engineering approach.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer, Software Engineer at Politécnico GrancolombianoTecnólogo en Informática, Ingeniería, Tecnólogo en Informática, Ingeniería at Corporación Universitaria Minuto de DiosB2, Inglés, B2, Inglés at Centro Colombo Americano
English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
flink-sql10
apache-flink10
java10
documentation10
kin9
amazon-kinesis9
big-data9
scala7
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 19 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cristian primarily contributed to fixing typos in documentation and code comments across the Apache Flink project. They addressed documentation errors in various modules, including `Trigger`, `TaskManager`, and `MemorySegment`. Additionally, the user added a `millisBehindLatest` metric for Kinesis connector and fixed a typo in the `TestableKinesisDataFetcher`. Their work involved code changes in Java and Scala, with a focus on documentation and internal system improvements.
pythonflinkconnectorsqlapache
casidiablo/java-bloomd-client
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Java client for bloomd
Contributions:23 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
javajava8java-client
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