Héctor Fernández
Principal Engineer at Chainguard
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolHéctor Fernández is a software engineer with 11+ years of experience blending academic research and production-grade cloud engineering, currently focused on supply-chain security at Chainguard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and postdoctoral experience in HPC and service-oriented computing, where he designed decentralized workflow coordination and an autoscaling system for the ConPaaS platform. Héctor has driven Kubernetes, container and distributed-systems work across companies like Mesosphere, D2iQ, Red Hat and VMware, and contributes to notable open-source projects including cosign and coreos/fleet. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and CI/CD tooling, he brings a pragmatic research mindset to performance, scalability and container security. An avid communicator and mentor, he pairs published research and conference talks with hands-on fixes and tests that improve long-running projects.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Web Engineering, Master in Web Engineering, Master in Web Engineering, Master in Web Engineering at Universidad de OviedoPostdoctorate, High Performance Computing, Postdoctorate, High Performance Computing at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Phd in Computer Science, Computer Science, Phd in Computer Science, Computer Science at Université de Rennes I
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
git10
kubernetes10
docker10
groovy10
testing10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
security10
go10
federation10
helm10
pipe10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
sigstore/cosign
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:948 reviews, 19 commits, 420 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Héctor primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `cosign` project, focusing on code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Their work included implementing features for verifying Kubernetes resources, fixing bugs related to vault integration, and improving the codebase through the addition of support for timestamp authorities for signing and verification. The user also contributed to improving the project's testing infrastructure.
code-signing
kubernetes-retired/kubefed
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Kubernetes Cluster Federation
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 101 reviews, 15 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Héctor primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and automating upgrade procedures for the Kubernetes Cluster Federation project. Their contributions included adding upgrade tests using Helm, updating scripts for test execution, and extracting the previous stable version for testing. They also worked on refining the deployment scripts and modifying feature gates. These changes improved the testing process for the kubefed project, enabling the automation of tests related to the upgrade process.
kubernetes-clusterk8s-sig-multiclusterfederated-clusters
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