Cristopher Hernandez
Software Assurance Engineer II at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCristopher Hernandez is a systems security assurance engineer with nine years of software and QA experience in aerospace, currently overseeing security assurance and tooling at NASA JPL in Pasadena. He blends hands-on development in Python, JavaScript and Lucee with formal security process design, audits against NIST/NASA standards, and maintenance of internal quality tools. As a lead developer he has modernized web-based QA tooling and contributed backend fixes to popular open-source projects like django-watson to improve search index robustness. His background ranges from database-schema design and UI work to proposing new assurance strategies, reflecting a rare mix of developer pragmatism and formal security rigor. Cristopher holds an MS in Computer Science and has a track record of turning operational pain points into automated, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at International Polytechnic High SchoolCal Poly PomonaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
English
Github Skills (9)
algorithm10
algorithms10
object-mapping10
orm10
python10
django10
testing9
database-design9
postgresql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
etianen/django-watson
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Full-text multi-table search application for Django. Easy to install and use, with good performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cristopher primarily contributed to enhancing the `django-watson` application by implementing features related to search index management and optimization. Their work involved adding functionality to clean up deleted object entries, ensuring the search index accurately reflects the database state. They also fixed type casting issues and corrected comments, thereby improving the robustness and maintainability of the search functionality. The user's changes specifically targeted improving how the search engine interacts with the Django ORM, including the handling of primary keys and related fields.
search-applicationmulti-tablepythondjangofull-text
CristopherH95/go-asciify-image
Mar 2019 - Sep 2024
Basic image to ascii art converter in Go
Contributions:5 PRs, 51 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
golangimageartasciiascii-art
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