Sergio Fernández
Software Development Manager at The Apache Software Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSergio Fernández is a seasoned software development manager with nearly two decades of experience building scalable, AI/ML-driven systems at Amazon and AWS, currently leading metadata management for S3 to help customers derive value from petabytes of unstructured data. He has a strong hands-on background in computer vision and proactive ML solutions, having grown and led teams that scaled brand protection across hundreds of thousands of brands. An active Apache committer and long-time open-source contributor, he has contributed backend improvements to projects like RDFLib/sparqlwrapper, adding features such as JSON-LD parsing and robust testing. His career spans research, lecturing, and startup co-founding, blending academic rigor (Master’s in Web Engineering) with practical product and platform delivery. Based in Vancouver, he brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise, cross-functional leadership, and community-focused open-source stewardship.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree Web Engineering, Master Degree Web Engineering at Universidad de Oviedo
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (6)
rdf10
sparql10
wrapper10
python10
json-ld9
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RDFLib/sparqlwrapper
Oct 2013 - May 2020
A wrapper for a remote SPARQL endpoint
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 226 commits, 8 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sergio primarily contributed to the `sparqlwrapper` library by enhancing its functionality and maintaining its code base. Their commits involved implementing features such as setting timeouts, adding support for JSON-LD parsing and handling of updates, and refining the query processing logic. Furthermore, the user improved the codebase by addressing existing issues, improving code style, and integrating new features, such as tests.
endpoint-sparqlpythonpypisparqlsparql-endpoints
wikier/OpenRefine
Nov 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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