João Fernandes
Digital Engineering Processes Lead at CERN
Geneva Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolJoão Fernandes is a digital engineering leader with 25+ years of ICT experience who currently heads delivery and support of mission-critical engineering applications for 5000+ specialists at CERN. He architects integrated 3D Digital Twins and drives the evolution of complex digital engineering workflows to support next-generation accelerators, blending deep technical know-how with strategic governance. His career spans award-winning hybrid cloud and data preservation projects, large-scale networking and real-time collaboration systems, and early contributions to particle-physics detector control software. Comfortable at the intersection of research and industry, he has a track record of translating international R&D into production services and forging high-impact collaborations across Europe. Based in Geneva, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on delivery, often tackling problems that require both operational scale and scientific precision.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoUniversidade do Porto
English, French, Italian, Portuguese, SpanishGithub contributions (3)
jyohhann/Marine-GRIB-InReach-Transmitter
Jun 2025 - Jun 2025
This tool enables sailors to fetch crucial GRIB weather files via messages over the Garmin inReach Satellite device while out on open seas without internet connection.
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
cern-it-efp/OCRE-Testsuite
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:80 commits, 2 PRs, 68 pushes in 11 months
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