Summary
Fernando Barbeiro is a software development manager based in Barcelona with 11 years of professional experience and a 16-year history building dependable systems spanning ML platforms, cloud services, and payroll automation. He has led teams at Amazon and FREE NOW to deliver resilient, cost-efficient production services—most recently driving a U.S. termination-payroll platform that processed ~818K terminations and enabled a $7.9M reduction in penalty exposure while removing ~325K manual interventions annually. His background includes scaling a centralized ML platform that enabled 100M daily predictions and slashed model deployment time from 14 weeks to under 2, demonstrating a rare combination of machine-learning infrastructure and operational rigor. Fernando excels at reducing engineering toil, right-sizing infrastructure for multi-million dollar savings, and developing successors—mentoring engineers into management during periods of rapid organizational change. Notably, he combines hands-on technical design with measurable business impact, reallocating human and compute resources toward higher-value work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade de Franca
Post-graduate - Specialist Project Development in Java with Databases, Post-graduate - Specialist Project Development in Java with Databases at Centro Universitário Claretiano
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Portuguese, English, Spanish