Richard Hernandez
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Hernandez is a Senior Software Engineer at AWS in Seattle with seven years of professional experience focused on improving developer efficiency and building robust backend systems. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Apache HttpCore, where he fixed race conditions and implemented thread-safe capacity signaling in reactive HTTP stream handling—work that shows attention to concurrency and production reliability. A Georgia Tech alumnus, Richard blends deep systems thinking with pragmatic testing improvements, such as adding tests for small-buffer scenarios to validate capacity behavior. Known for quietly resolving subtle concurrency bugs, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach to scaling developer-facing infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
javas10
reactive-programming10
java10
concurrency9
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/httpcomponents-core
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Mirror of Apache HttpCore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on improving the `ReactiveDataConsumer` class, addressing race conditions and ensuring proper capacity signaling in the context of reactive HTTP connections. They enhanced the testing suite by adding tests for handling numerous small buffers to validate capacity signaling. Furthermore, the user implemented a thread-safe capacity channel within `AbstractHttp1StreamDuplexer` to resolve potential race conditions related to capacity updates. They also fixed a javadoc reference.
javaapachehttpcomponents
rhernandez35/httpcomponents-core
Feb 2019 - Mar 2024
Mirror of Apache HttpCore
Contributions:21 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 2 months
http2apachehttpdjava
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