Juan Hernandez
Software Engineer - DeviceOS at Amazon Lab126
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJuan Hernandez is a software engineer with 14 years of professional experience and a PhD in Computer Science, currently building DeviceOS at Amazon Lab126 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends industry-grade device and TV platform engineering with a strong academic background as a former assistant professor and researcher in image/video compression and AI. At Lab126 he has progressed through Fire TV experiences into core DeviceOS development, shipping consumer-facing software for large-scale devices. Known for curiosity and collaboration, he brings research rigor to product engineering, translating publications and teaching experience into practical, user-centered solutions. A polyglot technically and culturally—he also studied Japanese—he leverages cross-disciplinary thinking to solve embedded-software and media-processing challenges.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Universidad de las Américas PueblaMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Spanish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
mass3
php1
raspberry-pi1
storage1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zenathark/VideoBWT
Mar 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:42 commits in 1 year 7 months
juancgalan/jg.waveletcodec
Nov 2013 - Oct 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 1 push in 4 years
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