Hi! I am Enrique Fernandez, a Software Engineer based in Stockholm. I am not Swedish though, but you probably already guessed that. I grew up in the beautiful mediterranean city of Tarragona, where I also happened to graduate in MSc Computer Science and Security and BSc Computer Science from Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

I cannot conceive Software Engineering without a good dose of all these three ingredients: technology, people and product. All three are equally important to me and I’m constantly seeking to improve on all of them.

I consider myself an experience Erlang/Elixir developer who is not afraid of using other programming languages when there is a needed for it. R, Python and Ruby are just a few examples. I’m a Distributed Systems and Functional Programming enthusiast. I wish days had more than 24 hours to be able to delve into all the new developments in these two domains. I don’t like repetitive tasks, that is probably why I jumped into the DevOps bandwagon as soon as I heard about it. Some of my favourites tools in this domain are Ansible and Terraform. I can’t develop software, ship it to production and forget about it. This is probably why Graphite, Grafana and Splunk are among the first services that I set up whenever I start a new project. Cloud technologies and the new kid in the block, containers, are one of my weaknesses. I have two obsessions: keeping everything under version control and Dockerizing everything.

I currently work as a Lead Architect at Derivco AB, a software house that develops trailblazing technology for Microgaming, one of the world’s largest suppliers of online gaming. More concretely, my job revolves around the Sports business unit, where we are tasked with developing the platform that fuels Betway’s Sportsbook. As the Lead Architect in the Swedish branch, I am the most senior technical member of the organisation. My functions span different aspects of the organisation including, but not limited to: office management and administration, communication with key stakeholders, product definition and technical development.

Prior to joining Derivco in 2016, I worked at Erlang Solutions AB, a leading consultancy firm specialised in building scalable distributed solutions using the Erlang programming language. As you can imagine, may daily work involved writing lots of lines of Erlang code for various customers, Klarna being probably the most notorious one. From time to time, I also happened to deliver Erlang courses to our customers. It was during my days at Erlang Solutions that I discovered the local Erlang User Group in Stockholm. You can check out some of my talks in my SpeakersDeck profile.

Before joining Erlang Solutions AB in 2012, I worked at Ericsson Research as a Research Engineer in the area of Content Delivery Networks and Cloud Computing. Among other things, I was involved in the development of several Cloud-related research projects (e.g. we were one of the early adopters of OpenStack). I also contributed to secure a handful of Cloud-related patents.

Last but not least, I started my professional career at Arquitecturas y Servicios Telemáticos in 2009. At that time, I would focus on conducting state-of-the-art research on Distributed Systems and Peer-to-Peer Networks under the supervision of PhD. Marc Sánchez and PhD. Pedro Garcia. As a result of my work at Architecturas y Servicios Telemáticos, I authored a series of research papers that can be found in my DBLP profile.