Fernando López
Senior Python Developer at Facultad de Informática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolFernando López is a Senior Python Developer with 14 years of experience building backend and DevOps solutions, currently working at Trinetix and teaching as Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos at the Facultad de Informática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He combines strong research roots and production engineering, having contributed to CERN’s Rucio scientific data management project where he improved the rucio-auditor daemon and replaced Hadoop bindings with a pure-Python implementation. Comfortable across Linux system administration, Bash and large-scale data consistency tooling, he has a track record of optimizing error handling and observability in complex distributed systems. Fernando’s career blends academia and industry—spanning LINTI research, Globant, Onapsis, and CERN—bringing a pragmatic, research-informed approach to software design. Based in La Plata, Argentina, he pairs deep technical focus with mentorship experience from years of teaching and lab leadership.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Informática, Informática, Licenciatura en Informática, Informática at Facultad de Informática within Universidad Nacional de La Plata
English
Github Skills (13)
distributed-systems10
python10
data-management10
hadoop9
devops9
auditing9
hdfs9
audit9
logging8
error-handling8
testing7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rucio/rucio
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on improving the `rucio-auditor` daemon, including integrating HDFS for replica dump access. They implemented features for checking data consistency and optimized the error handling. The commits also included changes to the auditor's architecture, such as replacing the `hadoopy` library with a pure Python implementation and improvements to logging to improve readability.
heterogeneous-systemsdata-managementsciencescientific-data-managementdistributed-systems
Robots-Linti/Multiplo
Aug 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
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