Rachel Fernandez
Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Fernandez is a Principal Software Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building embedded and infrastructure-focused systems at Northrop Grumman, where she progressed from intern to principal since 2020. She combines hands-on embedded software expertise with CI/CD and DevOps improvements—contributing to high-profile open-source work on Apache Beam by tuning Jenkins pipelines, concurrency, and Go SDK versions to improve build performance. A Software Engineering honors graduate from CSUSM, she has led small teams on web and research projects using React and charting libraries, and she tutors and mentors early-career engineers. Rachel’s blend of defense-sector system design and practical build-infrastructure optimization makes her effective at bridging low-level firmware requirements with scalable development workflows.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at California State University San MarcosHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Vista Murrieta High School
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Github Skills (23)
cicd10
build-engine10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
build-tools10
apache-beam10
buildr10
devops10
python9
cloud-infrastructure9
go9
infrastructure9
javas8
java8
dockers7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/beam
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits, 14 PRs, 28 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rachel's contributions primarily involve modifying and configuring the CI/CD pipeline, specifically within the Jenkins environment. They adjusted timeout values, increased concurrency settings for build execution, and added options related to setting up the build environment. Furthermore, the user updated the Go SDK version and configured a pipeline option related to CPU platforms. These modifications indicate a focus on improving build performance, resource allocation, and overall infrastructure management.
apache-beamstreaming-datapythonjavabig-data
ThatRfernand/beam
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Apache Beam
Contributions:11 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
beamapachebig-datajavaapache-beam
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