Summary
Raidel Hernandez is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, production cloud systems from Hialeah, Florida. He currently builds self-service IaC tooling and CI/CD pipelines at Ibotta, managing AWS resources, Kubernetes, Terraform, and automation that keep high-transaction services reliable and fast. Previously he led API and pipeline architecture for enterprise products at HCL, modernizing legacy SCM and testing platforms and moving complex systems to containerized and serverless environments. Comfortable at the intersection of software and networking, he has hands-on experience across C++, Java, Python, Docker, VPCs, IAM, and monitoring/observability stacks. A former graduate CS TA, he pairs strong theoretical foundations in algorithms and data structures with practical production engineering, often translating academic rigor into robust automation.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Florida State University
English, Spanish