Robert Hernandez
Lead Software Engineer at Coupa Software
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Hernandez is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and integrations, currently driving engineering at Coupa Software. A UC Berkeley CS graduate who began his career learning precision and planning from carpentry, he has deep expertise in Ruby on Rails with front-end work in React and Angular, plus growing iOS/mobile skills through formal certification and TA teaching. At Coupa he has delivered measurable impact—adding integration and automation test suites, reducing supplier-related backlog by 60%, and building notification and supplier portal features connected via background jobs and APIs. He balances pragmatic engineering with mentorship, having served as a TA for CodePath and led student teams as a CTO/co‑founder of an InternLeague startup. Outside engineering he studies Japanese and practices tea ceremony, a personal discipline that reflects his collaborative, patient approach to problem solving. Driven by both technical craft and a commitment to honor meaningful friendships, he seeks roles that blend web and mobile development with team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Minor Japanese, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Minor Japanese at University of California, BerkeleyEnglish Language and Literature, General, English Language and Literature, General at Monterey Peninsula CollegeIphone certification, Computer Science, Iphone certification, Computer Science at City College of San FranciscoIOS Degree, Computer Science, IOS Degree, Computer Science at CodePath
Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
seed7
data-handling7
ruby-on-rails5
saas5
rails5
react4
ruby4
herokuapp4
mobile-web3
timezone3
currency2
iso2
visualization2
data-visualization1
country-codes1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
luckyx1/visualization_for_drifter
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 release, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
berkeleyherokuappdata-visualizationvisualization
barbrobmich/LinkBase2
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:37 PRs, 30 pushes, 23 branches in 22 days
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