Fernando Serboncini
Engineering Manager at Tailscale
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFernando Serboncini is an engineering manager with 18 years of experience leading large-scale product and infrastructure teams, most recently joining Tailscale after a long tenure at Google where he worked across Search Quality, YouTube monetization, Chrome, and web platform teams. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like the Deno static site generator Lume and the HaxePunk game engine—with strategic leadership of cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. Fernando’s background in electrical and systems engineering from the University of São Paulo underpins a pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems and product-facing ranking infrastructure. He’s comfortable shipping deep technical fixes (rendering and template-engine enhancements) as well as guiding product strategy and operational excellence at scale. Based in Montreal, he blends academic rigor with practical product sensibility and a track record of improving both developer experience and end-user metrics. Notably, he pairs low-level engineering contributions with managerial impact, bridging implementation detail and broader organizational goals.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master System Engineering, Master System Engineering at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French
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Github Skills (31)
deno10
2d-engine10
game-engine10
static-site-generator10
haxe10
typescript10
2d-game10
nunjucks10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
automated-build10
typescripts10
javascript9
python9
postcss9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
lumeland/lume
May 2021 - Dec 2021
🔥 Static site generator for Deno 🦕
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the static site generator's core functionality, focusing on template engine integration and enhancement. They implemented error handling for missing template engines and refined the layout processing logic. The user also introduced preprocessing capabilities, including concurrent execution, and added features for the Nunjucks template engine, like constructor options, plugin extensions, and source map options. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to the build process by including improvements in the watcher.
reactdeno-modulestatic-sitesvgoeta
HaxePunk/HaxePunk
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Cross-platform desktop, mobile, and WebGL game engine, based on FlashPunk
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily focused on improving the HaxePunk game engine. Their contributions included bug fixes for rendering, specifically addressing issues with tilemaps, canvas rendering on native platforms, and image bounding boxes. Additionally, the user implemented new features, such as adding the `getBounds()` method to the `Image` class and creating a new `Imagemask` mask to improve pixel-perfect collision detection.
webglhaxepunkwebgl-game2d-game-engineopenfl
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