Joel Hernandez
Senior Software Engineering at RB Global Inc.
Antioch, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Hernandez is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, microservices, and data integrations across clients in e-commerce, finance, and auctions. Strongly Java-focused, he has a track record of improving throughput and reducing infrastructure costs by refactoring data ingestion pipelines, integrating Kafka consumers, and architecting resilient REST APIs on AWS. He pairs technical delivery with mentorship—introducing TDD, sensible defaults, and pair programming to raise team quality—and has led end-to-end projects from API design to CI/CD deployment. Beyond corporate work, he builds practical tooling as a freelancer, from civic-data scrapers and an OpenAI-assisted chatbot for county advocates to a financial dashboard and food analyzer, showing a bent for public-benefit automation. His background in large-scale meter integrations and building-automation projects gives him uncommon operational insight into monitoring and troubleshooting production systems. Based in Antioch, CA, Joel combines systems-level thinking with product-minded execution to turn messy integrations into reliable, high-performance services.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Industrial Technology, B.S. Industrial Technology at San José State UniversityComputer Programming, Computer Programming at UC Berkeley Extension
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
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dojo4
javascript2
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yocodigo/news-scraper
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 1 month
yocodigo/Old-Portfolio
Apr 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:12 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years
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