Summary
Fernando Arrau is a senior software engineer and technical leader from Chile with over 15 years in software delivery and a decade of focused industry experience, spanning full-stack development, platform architecture and CTO-level strategy. He has led cloud migrations, containerization and CI/CD efforts for public institutions and airlines, and today builds modern web platforms using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Supabase and AWS while leveraging LLM-assisted tooling like Copilot and Claude Code. As a fractional CTO and long-time freelancer he bridges business goals and engineering execution across retail, logistics, banking, mining and government sectors. Known for coaching teams and improving development practices, he combines hands-on coding with product-minded leadership and a proven track record of moving monoliths to containerized, test-driven systems. An engineer trained at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he brings pragmatic architecture instincts and a knack for introducing incremental, high-impact improvements in legacy environments.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
English, Spanish, Portuguese