Pablo Fernandez
Pexels - Senior Engineer Manager at Canva
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPablo Fernandez is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of formal experience leading teams and nearly three decades of hands-on engineering across startups and large tech firms. Currently Senior Engineering Manager at Pexels within Canva, he has repeatedly scaled teams rapidly—hiring at cadence of ~1/week with >90% offer acceptance—and transformed organizations from task-driven to autonomous, high-velocity delivery. He has led technical due diligence on multi-million dollar deals, co-founded and exited a startup, and executed complex migrations and IP acquisitions with zero major incidents. Equally comfortable in product and finance conversations, Pablo aligns roadmaps, budgets, and GTM needs to boost revenue while reducing operational toil. An active backend contributor to notable open-source projects like Novu, he practices test-driven development and improves developer workflows. Based in London, he combines operator-level execution with an author’s viewpoint on remote hiring and distributed management.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and Electromechanical Technician, Electronics and Electromechanics, Electronics and Electromechanical Technician, Electronics and Electromechanics at Philips Technology Institute
English, Spanish, Esperanto
Stackoverflow
5,759reputation
596kreached
188answers
9questions
axios
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react-router
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javascript
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wordpress
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Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
rest-api10
testing9
javascript9
axios9
wordpress9
php9
nodejs9
react9
e-mail9
react-router9
typescripts8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
novuhq/novu
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The open-source notification Inbox infrastructure. E-mail, SMS, Push and Slack Integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1859 reviews, 351 commits, 609 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pablo's commits primarily focused on back-end development tasks, implementing features related to API key generation, including ensuring uniqueness and connecting the regeneration use case. The user also contributed to fixing flow and dependencies for running documentation scripts, indicating familiarity with project setup and build processes. Their work involved test-driven development, as demonstrated by the creation of unit tests and the use of testing tools.
jsvue-reactnotificationsvuereactjs
seanbarton/welcome-email-editor
Dec 2016 - Jan 2024
WordPress Welcome Email Editor - Official plugin repo
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 1 month
email-editorwordpressemailwelcomewordpress-plugin
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