Summary
Robert Fernandes is a pragmatic Software Developer with 11 years of experience delivering reliable systems from requirements through release, currently based in Ottawa. He has led high-throughput services—most notably a Speech-to-Text microservice processing ~600 hours of audio per day—and optimized long-running data ingests from one day to ten minutes. Comfortable both building and testing, Robert has developed and maintained hundreds of C# data loaders, shared NuGet libraries, and automated test suites, and has experience across API, web and desktop V&V. He mentors new engineers, drove pair programming practices during COVID, and contributes to open-source tooling such as an Excel mapping library. Outside engineering he’s held fast-paced roles in hospitality to accelerate personal goals, reflecting a practical, ownership-driven work ethic.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Carleton University
English, French