Robin Fernandes
Engineer at Deforum
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Fernandes is a seasoned engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer ecosystems, and open-source tooling from Sydney. He transitioned from senior leadership roles at Atlassian—where he helped scale an internal PaaS and led efforts to simplify security and compliance for third-party developers—to hands-on engineering and architecture work. Currently CTO of Deforum, he contributes backend and full-stack improvements to notable Stable Diffusion projects (including animation-focused work for AUTOMATIC1111’s web UI) while also building novel LLM cloud infra at Nous Research. Robin combines deep systems and performance background from IBM with proven product delivery at large scale, and he’s comfortable moving between strategic architecture and detailed code-level fixes. An unusual strength is his ability to translate compliance and platform constraints into developer-friendly features, evidenced by UI and parameter work that improved loopback color fidelity and animation manifest support.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computing, MEng Computing at Imperial College LondonFrench Baccalauréat with International Option (OIB), French Baccalauréat with International Option (OIB) at Centre International de Valbonne
French, English
Github Skills (22)
python10
animation10
image-processing10
stable-diffusion10
ui-design10
im10
webui10
uid10
front-end-development10
user-interface9
ml9
human-interface9
aiml9
graphical-user-interface9
scikit-image9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deforum-art/sd-webui-deforum
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Deforum extension for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion webui
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 32 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributes to the Deforum extension for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion webui, focusing on integrating support for animation series defined in Parseq manifests. Their work includes initial implementation of manifest mapping, the addition of subseed and antiblur parameters, and adjustments for loading and saving settings. The user also made changes to the prompt interpolation and ensuring data integrity with a focus on the video output.
stablediffusionwebuiplugindiffusionanimations
lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 4 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Robin contributed to the img2img feature, introducing color correction capabilities to prevent color skewing in loopback operations. They added a parameter to control the denoising strength change factor, making it user-adjustable. The user also refactored the user interface by adding a new slider for the denoising strength change factor and adding options for saving images during certain steps.
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