Rene Hernandez
Individual Contributor Tech 5 at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRene Hernandez is an experienced software engineer with 8 years building backend systems and distributed services, currently contributing as an Individual Contributor Tech 5 at Apple in Austin. He brings deep Java expertise across frameworks and tooling (Netty, Spring, gRPC, Netflix OSS) and practical cloud experience with AWS and Google Cloud, coupled with a background in data engineering and SDET practices. His career spans high-scale environments at Grubhub, Riot Games, Pex, and Chrome River, where he worked on proxies (Envoy), messaging (SQS/SNS/Pub/Sub), and service mesh patterns. Rene is comfortable moving between feature delivery and infrastructure concerns—designing resilient services, automating tests, and containerizing deployments. Colleagues would note his willingness to learn any required technology and his knack for translating operational needs into robust, testable code.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (40)
proxy10
accelerator10
high-performance10
load-balancing9
kubernetes9
java9
failover9
aws9
golang9
api9
cloud-native9
load-balancer8
cache-control8
grpc8
service-discovery8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rene-m-hernandez/eureka
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
rene-m-hernandez/java-control-plane
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Java implementation of an Envoy gRPC control plane
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
envoygrpccontrol-planeplanejava
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