Italo Fernandes
Python Backend Engineer at Prose
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolItalo Fernandes is a Python backend engineer based in Paris with a decade of experience delivering scalable web applications and APIs, and over eight years focused on backend systems. He has built production Django services across industries—from geospatial platforms at GeoSolutions and the open-source GeoNode project to high-traffic microservices at tembici and e-commerce scaling at Restons En Vigne. At Prose he leads API integrations, mentors engineers, and champions DEI while improving system stability and performance. His background in biomedical engineering and early embedded work—contributing to motion-tracking research and patents—gives him a pragmatic systems mindset and attention to low-level detail. An active contributor to GeoNode, he emphasizes reliability and maintainability through bug fixes and tooling that improve real-world geospatial deployments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Degree Biomedical Engineering - FEELT Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Engineering Degree Biomedical Engineering - FEELT Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFUInternational Exchange Biomedical Engineering, International Exchange Biomedical Engineering at Polytech Lyon
Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (12)
debug10
gis10
geospatial10
python10
django10
spatial-data10
postgresql9
api8
apim8
api-design8
testing7
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GeoNode/geonode
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 40 commits, 32 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Italo primarily focused on backend development, as evidenced by the commits related to fixing bugs and improving the GeoNode platform. They made changes to core Python files and Django settings, addressing issues related to geofence rules and mobile device detection. Additionally, the user created an app for management commands, and addressed several other bugs that demonstrates a focus on improving the application's overall performance.
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italogsfernandes/inertial_sensors
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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