Javier Fernandez-ivern
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Fernandez-ivern is a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix with 11 years of experience designing and delivering medium-to-large web and server-side applications. He combines hands-on architecture and development skills in Java and Ruby on Rails with proven experience managing remote teams, contractors, and stakeholders across complex projects. Javier has a track record of leading architecture efforts at both startups and enterprises—from owning a consulting firm to senior roles at Capital One and Netflix—bridging product needs and engineering execution. He is comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, improving development processes, and scaling systems in distributed environments. Based in Frisco, Texas, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with practical expertise in crowdsourcing and remote team orchestration, a skill honed during his time managing TopCoder’s competition platform. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic architectures that accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Eastern Washington University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (148)
tooling10
libbpf10
nintendo10
security10
multiarch10
monitoring10
rootless10
golang10
steam10
kubernetes10
gateway10
dynamic-routing10
game-controller10
chroot10
api-gateway10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jfernandez/ControllerTools
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 18 reviews, 64 commits in 2 months
xboxcontrollercontrollersdeckgame-controller
Netflix/bpftop
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program.
Contributions:24 reviews, 117 PRs, 150 pushes in 1 year
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