Maria Hernández is a backend software engineer with eight years of experience building reliable systems across fintech, observability, and robotics domains, currently contributing to Mercado Libre's backend in Go. She brings a strong automation and DevOps mindset from improving CI/CD, deployment tooling, and on-call support at Medallia, coupled with hands-on experience in container orchestration and cloud services. Earlier roles include robotics perception and SLAM work using ROS/OpenCV and C++, and game-engine tooling in C++, reflecting a broad systems-level skillset. A former GSoC contributor, she combines research-oriented problem solving with production-grade implementation and is pursuing postgraduate specialization in AI, signaling a growing focus on machine intelligence applied to backend systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering at Universidad Simón Bolívar
Post-graduate Specialization in Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Post-graduate Specialization in Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence at University of Buenos Aires
Practical project for finding vulnerabilities when pushing to a repository
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 14 days
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