Obie Fernandez
Chief Technology Officer at ZAR
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarObie Fernandez is a veteran technology executive and serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building and scaling engineering organizations and products at the intersection of Ruby on Rails and AI. As founding CTO of Andela and founder of Hashrocket, he has created world-class developer training and consultancy practices that propelled global talent networks and elite Rails teams. He’s led product and platform strategy across startups and public companies—from founding Web3 music marketplace RCRDSHP to driving developer acceleration and AI integration at Shopify and now building an AI-native global payments platform at ZAR. A bestselling author of The Rails Way, Obie pairs deep hands-on engineering credibility with board- and investor-facing leadership that repeatedly attracts top technical talent. He also experiments with agentic AI workflows and knowledge-graph automation to boost developer velocity—an approach he’s implemented across consulting, founder roles, and enterprise-scale platforms. Based in New York, he combines entrepreneurial grit with practical execution across custody, blockchain integrations, developer tooling, and scalable SaaS systems.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (194)
api-client10
mvc10
azure-functions10
ruby10
mobile-web10
activerecord10
serverless10
ruby-on-rails10
chatgpt10
whisper10
serverless-applications10
aws-apigateway10
api10
html10
lambda10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
obie/guide-to-reactive-rails
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
A comprehensive guide to online resources about "Reactive" Ruby on Rails development
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrails-developmentruby-on
OlympiaAI/raix
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Ruby AI eXtensions
Contributions:9 releases, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
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