Felipe Fernández
Senior Software Engineer at Gradle Inc.
Las Palmas, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Fernández is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience building resilient, distributed systems on the JVM, currently at Gradle. He specializes in Scala-driven architectures, Reactive patterns (Akka, Akka Streams), and pragmatic DevOps practices—bringing systems to production with a focus on testability, TDD/BDD and Continuous Delivery. Felipe has hands-on experience designing microservices and streaming solutions at scale (Kafka, Cassandra, Storm) and has driven infrastructure automation with Docker, Mesos, Consul and AWS. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved async control flow and retry semantics in the popular Ratpack framework and helped make SDKMAN! more portable and automatable. A regular conference speaker and community mentor, he pairs deep engineering craft with a track record of turning spikes into production-ready platforms.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Universidad de Valladolid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
asynchronous10
groovy10
async10
testing10
command-line-interface10
bash10
cicd10
java10
javas10
test-integration10
test-unit10
ratpack10
integration-testing10
api-design9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sdkman/sdkman-cli
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Felipe made significant contributions to the SDKMAN! command-line interface by improving platform portability and refactoring the project's structure. They addressed platform-specific dependencies in testing, enabling broader compatibility. Furthermore, the user migrated the candidate directory, enhanced the self-update script, and implemented features that streamlined the build process. Their work included setting up test automation and improving the install script.
command-line-interfacesdkman
ratpack/ratpack
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Lean & powerful HTTP apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the Ratpack framework by implementing new functionalities related to `Promise` and `Chain` interfaces, specifically adding `mapIfOrElse`, `flatMapIfOrElse` and `when` methods, and providing retry mechanisms. These additions enhance the framework's asynchronous programming capabilities and control flow mechanisms. They also implemented unit tests to ensure the correctness of the new features, demonstrating a focus on testing and quality assurance.
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