Oil, Gas, and Mining
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
Utilities
Active

Fernando

I build decision-support software for complex, high-stakes environments.

About Me

Founder with exit to a major Swedish conglomerate. Several software solutions in production across supply chain, transportation, energy. PhD with award-winning publications in optimization modeling.

Jurisdiction

Region: Europe

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
FounderZ-Joule
2023 - Present

Z-Joule provides advanced algorithms and carefully curated data sets to support the maritime fuel transition. I have designed the core optimization models and BE. I manage a team of four remote developers working on FE and QC.

CTOMotkraft AS
2022 - 2023

Motkraft was acquired by SkandiaPower. Supervising a remote team of a dozen remote developers. On the BE, a large part of our work revolved around API integrations, including with Metzum, eNode, Modhi, Vipps, and NordPool. The FE consisted primarily of a mobile app, although we also developed internal tools for our colleagues in finance and customer service.

CTO and Co-FounderBunkerMetric ApS
2017 - 2021

BunkerMetric was acquired by AlfaLaval (StormGeo) in 2022. Chief architect and lead developer for BunkerPlanner, our flagship SaaS. Created the core optimization model, backend, and APIs. Developed integrations to 3rd party systems such as Dataloy, IMOS, and SeaRoutes. Designed and maintained the distributed GCP infrastructure that supports the SaaS, with >99.9% uptime in three continents over two years in production. Managed an agile team of front- and back- end developers on a daily basis. Acting CISO, managing penetration testing at application and network levels. Investor relations. Guiding external legal counsel on contractual negotiations. Key technologies and platforms include GCP, Java 11, JSON, PostgreSQL, CPLEX, JIRA, Bitbucket, load balancers, VMs, DB replication, CrashTest, Intruder.

Education

Doctorate of Optimization Modeling in Transport SectorUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
2005 - 2008
Masters of Transportation EngineeringCornell University
1997 - 1999

Certification

Total Certifications3

Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Google

Professional Data Engineer Certification

Google

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect

Google

Credential ID: efb83569-7f5b-4583-8592-35f02d62c6d2

Skills

Core skills0
Languages4

Languages

English
Spanish
French
Norwegian