Fernando Briano
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFernando Briano is a backend-focused software engineer with 17 years of experience, based in Edinburgh, who blends pragmatic DevOps sensibilities with deep Ruby/Rails expertise. He has contributed to well-known open-source Elasticsearch projects, improving test suites, CI/CD, and authentication support in the Ruby clients and integrations. Comfortable refactoring generators and transport layers, he favors maintainable automation over brittle scripts and has shipped releases for community projects. Educated in Uruguay with formal programmer analyst training, he pairs long-term production experience with a clear preference for stability and rootedness—he’s intentionally UK-settled and unlikely to relocate for the right reasons.
17 years of coding experience
Programmer analyst, Programmer analyst at Universidad ORT UruguayUniversity drop-out, Computer Engineering, University drop-out, Computer Engineering at Universidad de la RepúblicaIntensive Course, Java SE 5.0, Java EE 5.0, introduction to JBoss Seam, Intensive Course, Java SE 5.0, Java EE 5.0, introduction to JBoss Seam at Ing. Carlos Soderguit
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Github Skills (31)
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
rails10
ruby10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
activerecord10
elasticsearch10
ruby-on-rails10
test-automation10
elasticsearch-api10
svn9
github-ci9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-ruby
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:70 releases, 141 reviews, 2179 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Fernando contributed to the Ruby client for Elasticsearch by fixing errors related to range value errors in the API spec testing and refactoring the code generator. They removed a bash script and moved its functionality to a Thor task, which improved the generator's maintainability. Additionally, they made significant changes to the gem's underlying transport layer to support API key authentication, including handling authentication header and removing basic auth. The user also refactored unit tests.
elasticrubyrubynlpintegrationselasticsearch
elastic/elasticsearch-rails
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 4 reviews, 67 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the `elasticsearch-rails` repository, focusing on bug fixes, test adjustments, and updating dependencies. They addressed issues related to the test suite, including multi-model specs and import functionality. Furthermore, the user played a role in releasing new versions of the project, as well as updating template files. The commits also show work related to the CI/CD pipeline.
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