Esteban Fernandez
VP Of Engineering at Pitchtape
Chile
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Top SchoolEsteban Fernandez is a VP of Engineering based in Chile with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, microservice-driven platforms and leading cross-functional teams. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and CI/CD—with a strong track record of performance optimizations (e.g., cutting video encoding time and CPU use by ~60% and reducing processing from minutes to seconds). He has led full product lifecycles at startups like Pitchtape, translating business goals into scalable architectures and smoother release pipelines. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he regularly drives code reviews, observability, and cost-aware engineering using Grafana, ELK, New Relic and Datadog. Esteban’s career shows a pattern of taking legacy systems to resilient, automated cloud deployments and mentoring teams through that transformation. He also brings uncommon practical experience shipping real-time and embedded integrations early in his career, from hospital nurse-call systems to telecom monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Ejecucción en Computación e Informática, Ingeniería informática, Ingeniero en Ejecucción en Computación e Informática, Ingeniería informática at Instituto Profesional Virginio GómezSuperior
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (30)
datetimepicker9
datepicker9
datetime8
borrowing6
django-forms6
forms6
django6
javascript6
jquery3
dockerfile3
blockchain3
ethereum3
smart-contracts3
docker-compose3
solidity3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ark4n631/code-replacer
Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
teller-protocol/builder
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Docker-compose config used to run a node.
Contributions:11 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
dockerfiledockercomposenodejsdocker-compose
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