Fernando Alcantara
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
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Top SchoolFernando Alcantara is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years in software and a decade focused on cloud-native Java backends, currently shaping Oracle’s OCI Student Financial Planner. He blends deep retail POS and payments expertise from long tenures at Toshiba and IBM with modern skills in Spring, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD to own and evolve critical product components. Fernando has led teams, reduced defect backlogs, and delivered customer-facing solutions that supported retailers through pandemic-driven changes—demonstrating both hands-on coding and pragmatic technical leadership. With a master's in computer science and a hobbyist interest in Arduino and Unity, he brings a curiosity for embedded and interactive systems that informs practical, cross-domain engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma de GuadalajaraEnglish, English at Upsala College
German, Portuguese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
fernandoalcasan/2D-Space-Shadow
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:88 commits, 92 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
fernandoalcasan/2D-Mobile-Game
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:71 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
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