Fernando Bernabé is a Principal Architect based in Barcelona with 12 years of experience designing and scaling data-intensive platforms and distributed systems. He leads architecture and platform evolution at Intent HQ, guiding cross-functional teams to ship reliable big-data analytics built on Scala, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla and AWS EMR. Previously he led backend teams at letgo, where he helped evolve systems to handle tens of millions of users and billions of messages using DDD, CQRS and Akka-based streaming. Fernando combines hands-on backend and database expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular pgcli project adding configuration-driven pager support and timestamptz handling—with strong platform engineering instincts. He is fluent in both engineering leadership and low-level implementation, able to translate product needs into resilient microservices and data pipelines. Based on a formal MSc in Software Engineering and long consulting experience, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to solving complex production problems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Computer Engineering Degree Ingeniería informática, Computer Engineering Degree Ingeniería informática at Universidad de Murcia
Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on enhancing the `pgcli` codebase. Their contributions included implementing a configuration-driven approach for pager selection, allowing users to specify their preferred pager in the configuration file or via environment variables. They also addressed a bug related to the `execute_from_file` functionality and added support for the `timestamptz` type in the date custom extension, demonstrating their involvement in database-related aspects and addressing specific user needs.
Universal dependency update tool that fits into your workflows.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
operationupdateagile-developmentworkflowsfits
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Fernando Bernabé - Principal Architect at Intent HQ