Denise Fernandez
Staff Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenise Fernandez is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building robust systems across manufacturing, financial services, and music/entertainment. At Spotify since 2016, she has progressed from senior engineer to staff, specializing in data processing pipelines, API design, and integrating complex legacy systems. She excels at solving hard technical problems—particularly entity resolution and data model deployment—and at translating product requirements into production-grade services. Denise brings strong CI/CD and test-driven development discipline, having implemented automated pipelines and code-quality tooling across teams. She combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership, mentoring peers and driving reliable delivery in fast-moving environments. A background spanning mainframes to modern cloud-native stacks gives her a pragmatic edge when unifying legacy and cutting-edge systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Software) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Software) Computer Software Engineering at University of Newcastle
English, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
kafka10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
apache9
kafka-consumer9
react8
react-native-reanimated8
android8
ios8
react-native-gesture-handler8
react-native8
cross-platform7
mobile6
database5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rowdyrabbit/play-cors
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:27 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
enable-corscorsplay-framework
rowdyrabbit/publictest
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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