Fernando Gasperi
Software Engineer at Toptal
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Top SchoolFernando Gasperi is a Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems across distributed backends, mobile tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure. He has driven large efficiency gains at Meta—e.g., cutting iOS testing capacity by half and reducing test-related land blocks by 95%—and owns modern pipelines and oncall practices for complex developer tools like Facebook's idb. His background spans startups to hyperscale engineering, from leading secure, privacy-aware mobile products at a mental-health startup to migrating high-traffic services at MercadoLibre with zero downtime. An active open-source contributor, he significantly improved Infer's scheduler to speed static analysis and implemented benchmarking infrastructure, showing a knack for performance tuning informed by perf and flamegraphs. Comfortable mentoring and shaping teams, he combines hands-on optimization skills with strong communication and developer-experience sensibilities.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Computación Ciencias de la computación, Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Computación Ciencias de la computación at University of Buenos Aires
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Github Skills (25)
static-code-analysis10
ios10
static-analysis10
back-end-development10
ocaml10
xcode10
backend10
xctest9
objective-c9
java9
javas9
concurrency9
swift8
cprogramming-language8
c-language8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/idb
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 reviews, 18 commits, 8 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on adapting the `idb` tool to support newer iOS versions and features, specifically addressing compatibility issues with Xcode 12.5 and later. Their contributions involved modifying the codebase to utilize new APIs like `SimDevice` for location and hardware keyboard control, replacing older `FBSimulatorBridge` interactions. They also updated the test framework to align with type changes in Xcode 12.5, and adapted the tool for mac support.
command-line-interfaceios-simulator
facebook/infer
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fernando significantly contributed to the development of the `infer` static analyzer, specifically focusing on the scheduler components. Their work involved refactoring modules, introducing new scheduler options, and optimizing the task management process. The user implemented a `RestartScheduler` with file-based locking to handle tasks and reschedule incomplete ones. These changes aim to improve the efficiency and reliability of the analysis phase by managing the execution of analysis tasks.
cppjavaobjective-cstatic-analyzerstatic-analysis
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