Fernando Pieressa
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Pieressa is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade of experience building scalable, production-ready systems and a solid academic foundation from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has designed high-throughput microservice architectures and data migration pipelines—supporting millions of users and reducing critical processing times by orders of magnitude—while improving fraud detection and payment workflows. Comfortable across backend stacks, event-driven systems, and data engineering, he also built a lightweight microservice toolkit that drastically cut memory usage in production. An experienced mentor and course coach, he has led teaching assistant teams and guided student capstone projects, combining hands-on coding with clear technical documentation. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep engineering rigor with a collaborative, help-focused mindset that accelerates team delivery.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Computer Science, Exchange Student, Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelor of Engineering Science, Major in Computing and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Science, Major in Computing and Software Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileIB Diploma, IB Diploma at International BaccalaureateEF International Language Centers
Spanish, English
Github Skills (14)
del10
csharp8
javascript3
django3
css3
jwt-authentication3
authentication2
backend2
django-rest-framework2
django-rest2
frontend1
rest1
vue1
jwt1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ewaugh2/ECS189L-Project
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Project for ECS189L Game Programming
Contributions:45 PRs, 56 pushes, 28 branches in 18 days
ecsgamegame-programminggame-development
isipalma/Bases-de-datos
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:52 pushes in 17 days
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