Gregg Hernandez
Sr. Staff Engineer at Lucid Software
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolGregg Hernandez is a Sr. Staff Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 16 years of experience building reliable backend systems and distributed services. He specializes in Scala, TypeScript, Go, MySQL, and AWS, and has driven production-grade microservices work at companies like Lucid, Nike, Crunchbase, and Geode. Gregg has a strong track record improving performance and resilience—optimizing databases, introducing Redis caching, and integrating Kafka for real-time pipelines—while also contributing core Scala libraries and tooling. He’s equally comfortable designing APIs for IoT and RFID use cases as he is auditing schema and scaling platform services. With a BS in Computer Science from Utah Valley University, Gregg blends practical engineering rigor with a history of shipping pragmatic, reusable solutions across startups and larger enterprises. An understated skill is his knack for turning library-level contributions into company-wide standards that simplify long-term maintenance.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Utah Valley University
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Github Skills (200)
exhaustive10
integrations10
vim10
melpa10
pattern10
emacs-lisp10
emacs-lsp10
warnings10
emacs10
incron10
equality10
reflection10
scala10
scalatest10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gregghz/zmk-config
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 51 commits, 47 pushes in 4 months
gregghz/Watcher
Sep 2010 - Sep 2013
Watcher is a daemon that watches specified files/folders for changes and fires commands in response to those changes. It is similar to incron, however, configuration uses a simpler to read yaml file instead of a plain text file. It's also written in Python, making it easier to hack.
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years
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