Nestor Hernandez

Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Lead

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." – Amelia Barr

Fascinated by innovation and problem solving, my decision to pivot from a pre-med track to Software Engineering while attending Loyola University Chicago was inspired by the concept of abstraction in computer science. Applied in a more general sense, it is an astounding catalyst for world-altering changes. What we know today as Wi-fi, GPS, and Bluetooth came about thanks to something as relatively simple as a miniaturized player-piano, credited to the abstract thinking of Hedy Lamarr and combined with the skillful implementation of George Antheil.

Since then, I have built digital products and software solutions across consulting, enterprise, and startup environments. I also keep a cross-platform event-ticketing app live—my playground for trying new tech and battle-testing patterns in production.

I love turning messy problems into accessible, high-performance products. If that is what you are building, I would love to help.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

IBM (formerly Dialexa)
2022 – 2025Dallas, Texas

Full-stack and platform engineer delivering measurable impact across search, tracking, and data systems. Owned client relationships and delivery—from discovery and roadmapping through build, launch, and scale—while managing direct reports via 1:1s, growth plans, and code reviews.

JavaC#JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonSpring Boot.NET CoreVuePostgresSnowflakePineconeLLM Foundational ModelsRedisElasticSearchGCPAzureDockerKubernetesJenkinsTerraform

Full Stack Developer

AbbVie
2020 – 2021North Chicago, Illinois

Implemented a company-wide search service that integrated multiple business systems through reusable adapters and a consolidated API entry point. Assessed legacy systems for cloud-migration suitability and either led the migration/remediation or produced implementation roadmaps for partner teams.

JavaPythonNode.jsScalaFlaskFastAPIVueReactOracleMySQLSQL ServerSalesForceAWSWindows IISDockerKubernetesJenkins

Software Engineer

Mediaocean (formerly 4C Insights)
2017 – 2020Chicago, Illinois

Built a data-visualization platform that unified TV and social signals to deliver audience insights, competitive benchmarks, and campaign optimization. Improved performance and cost efficiency with metrics-driven autoscaling on a container orchestration platform, scaling workers based on message-queue depth. Established feature-branch CI/CD with chat-based triggers, automated infrastructure and configuration via IaC, standardized container/image workflows, and streamlined cloud and on-prem releases with notifications and role-based approvals. Contributed to the migration plan from single-node databases to highly available multi-node clusters.

Ember.jsReactPythonFlaskCeleryMariaDBMongoDBAWSRedisRabbitMQAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaDockerKubernetesJenkins

Software Engineer

AC Moore (formerly Blitsy)
2015 – 2017Chicago, Illinois

Partnered with supply-chain, engineering, and merchandising to tighten B2C order-pipeline controls, improving inventory accuracy and catalog integrity. Automated purchase-order workflows across vendor and third-party systems to cut fulfillment errors. Extended the in-house CRM with RBAC for secure partner access (API/SFTP) and restricted views.

PHPJavaScriptNode.jsAngularReactExpressMySQLAWSChefPuppetDockerAlgolia

Software Engineer

ClaraStream
2014 – 2015Chicago, Illinois

Built distributed data pipelines to centralize and normalize retail catalog, inventory, and pricing data.

PHPJavaScriptNode.jsExpressMongoDBHerokuChefPuppetActiveMQApache Camel

Projects

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Slayyo

Create, sell, and manage tickets anywhere—web, iOS, or Android—with team roles, account sharing, and Stripe-powered checkout.

PythonFlutterNext.jsGCPStripe
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Penske - Fleet Insight

Helped launch the web-only MVP of Penske’s Fleet Insight customer portal—centralizing fleet visibility, maintenance, billing, and reporting in one place.

.NET CoreVueAzureSnowflake
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Ascension - Provider Search

Search & data pipeline refresh: rebuilt Elasticsearch indices, hardened the data ingestion layer, and worked with stakeholders to design and implement a custom search relevance scoring model.

JavaSpring BootElasticSearchKibanaLogstashGCPPub/Sub