Hernan Badenes
Software Engineering Lead at InOrbit, Inc.
Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolHernan Badenes is a Software Engineering Lead with 11+ years of professional experience and a long-standing passion for programming, currently driving engineering at InOrbit after a decade at IBM. He brings deep expertise in cloud and social computing, pairing research-rooted problem solving from his academic roles with hands-on delivery across front-end and back-end systems. An active open-source contributor, Hernan improved testing, API integrations, and UI features for notable IBM Watson SDKs—work that strengthened Tone Analyzer clients across Python and Node.js. He is comfortable leading teams and rolling up his sleeves on automation, QA, and API versioning, and he often focuses on deterministic, readable test suites that prevent regressions. Based in Argentina with a Lic. in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, he blends engineering rigor with a practical bent for product-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Lic., Computer Science, Lic., Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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python10
apidoc10
testing10
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ibm-watson10
rest-api10
nodejs10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
:comet: Node.js library to access IBM Watson services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 8 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Hernan primarily contributed to the `watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk` repository by modifying the Tone Analyzer service, specifically focusing on fixing API calls and adding test cases. Their work included updating the synonym API and adding comments for clarity. They also introduced a new version (v3) of the Tone Analyzer service and added test cases for it.
cometvisual-recognitionwatsonjavascriptpersonality-insights
watson-developer-cloud/tone-analyzer-nodejs
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Sample Node.js Application for the IBM Tone Analyzer Service
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hernan primarily worked on enhancing the front-end functionality of the application, specifically focusing on integrating the Tone Analyzer service. Their contributions included modifying the UI to highlight words with synonyms and implementing the display of synonym suggestions. The user also addressed API version changes and syntax issues, ensuring the application's integration with the Tone Analyzer service was up to date. Furthermore, they adjusted the application to receive context from the API, improving synonym lookup.
ibm-tone-analyzertonenode-jstone-analyzernodejs
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