About

Fernan One

Software Architect

Software architect with 15+ years of experience designing distributed systems, leading platform teams, and driving technical strategy. I help organizations scale their architecture from monolith to event-driven microservices while keeping teams aligned and systems reliable. My work pairs pragmatic design reviews with measurable delivery outcomes.

Experience

Where I've worked

  1. 2019 – Present

    Senior Architect

    Acme Corp · San Francisco, CA

    • Led an architecture transformation across 12 microservices, cutting inter-service latency by 40%.
    • Established event-driven patterns and review practices adopted by 6 product teams.
    • Introduced an architecture decision record process now covering every platform change.

  2. 2016 – 2019

    Lead Architect

    Globex Inc · Seattle, WA

    • Designed a next-generation platform serving 50M+ users across three regions.
    • Migrated a legacy monolith to service-oriented architecture with zero downtime over 18 months.
    • Mentored 9 senior engineers into platform ownership roles.

  3. 2013 – 2016

    Solutions Architect

    Initech · Austin, TX

    • Architected a multi-tenant SaaS platform handling 10K+ concurrent tenants.
    • Defined API standards, data isolation patterns, and deployment pipelines used company-wide.

  4. 2010 – 2013

    Senior Software Engineer

    Umbrella Co · Portland, OR

    • Built core infrastructure services in Go and Python serving every internal product.
    • Introduced containerized deployments and automated CI/CD across the engineering org.

Skills

Technologies & expertise

Languages

  • Go
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java

Frameworks & Platforms

  • React
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka

Tools & Practices

  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • System Design
  • Event-Driven Architecture

Projects

Notable work

  • EventMesh

    Real-time event routing fabric connecting 40+ services at 2M events per second with sub-10ms P99 latency.

    • Go
    • NATS
    • gRPC

  • Platform API Gateway

    Unified edge gateway handling rate limiting, auth, and schema validation for 100K+ requests per minute.

    • Envoy
    • Go
    • OpenAPI

  • Cloud Migration Framework

    Repeatable framework for moving on-prem workloads to AWS, used by 8 business units to cut migration time by 60%.

    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Python

  • Observability Pipeline

    Centralized logging, metrics, and tracing pipeline that reduced incident response time from hours to minutes.

    • OpenTelemetry
    • Kafka
    • Grafana

Education

Degrees & certifications

  • 2010

    M.S. Computer Science

    Stanford University

  • 2008

    B.S. Software Engineering

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2021

    AWS Solutions Architect Professional

    Amazon Web Services

Contact

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References

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