Fernando Tessmann is a Senior Staff Engineer with over a decade building and scaling web platforms for major media and e-commerce organisations, currently driving engineering at XWP across Brazil and previously in North America. He blends deep front-end and WordPress expertise with leadership experience from founding startups and leading development teams, delivering production-grade systems at scale. Fernando maintains an entrepreneurial streak through personal projects like História do Grenal and runkme, showing he still ships product-focused code outside corporate roles. Comfortable operating across distributed teams and time zones, he has a track record of evolving from hands-on developer to technical lead while keeping a developer-first mindset. Based in Florida with roots in Brazil, he brings cross-cultural experience and pragmatic architecture decisions informed by long-term product ownership.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
College Diploma Administration and Computer Science, College Diploma Administration and Computer Science at Colégio Marista Pio XII
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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