Fidel Hernandez
Lead Software Developer at BNY Mellon
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFidel Hernandez is a Lead Software Developer based in the New York City area with nine years of engineering experience and a strong full-stack focus on Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and React. He has led cloud-native migrations and built high-performance RESTful APIs at BNY Mellon, achieving 99.99% uptime and cutting API latency by 90% through caching and async processing. Fidel also drives developer productivity—mentoring juniors, leading intern teams, and implementing CI/CD pipelines that reduced production bugs by 25%. His background includes research and implementation of VR/AR interfaces and game-like educational tools, reflecting a rare blend of systems engineering and HCI experimentation. Practical, metrics-oriented, and mentorship-minded, he excels at turning legacy systems into scalable, observable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Florida International University - College of Engineering & Computing
Spanish, English
Github Skills (2)
react2
testing2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NuiLab/CSGameVR
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
fhernan22/PostGram-App
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 months
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