Summary
Gerardo Fernandez is a Principal Engineer based in Richmond, CA with eight years of full-stack web development experience and a track record of advancing through UI and web application roles at Autodesk. He specializes in building responsive, production-grade applications using Node.js and React, and brings a meticulous debugging mindset rooted in strong attention to detail. Earlier in his career he blended technical and financial acumen in project accounting and delivery roles for international organizations, which informs his pragmatic, compliance-aware approach to product engineering. A classically trained pianist with a master’s in performance, he still performs and teaches—bringing creativity and discipline from music into team collaboration and system design. Always learning, he pairs hands-on coding with leadership at scale, comfortable moving between individual contribution and guiding cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Accounting and Finance, Associate's Degree Accounting and Finance at Montgomery College
BM Piano Performance, BM Piano Performance at The University of Southern Mississippi
Full Stack Web Development Boot Camp Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development Boot Camp Computer Science at UC Berkeley Extension
Masters in Music Piano Performance, Masters in Music Piano Performance at Peabody Institute
Spanish, English, Portuguese