Alex Hernandez

Hola! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ I am a software engineer splitting my time between 🐨 Brisbane, Australia and 🍊 Orlando, Florida.

I love to write useful and reliable software and getting teams to produce results like a well-oiled machine. 🚂

Currently, I am working on Console Connect, a Software-Designed Networking (SDN) platform.

Here are selected examples of my past work:

Leasecake

Leasecake

I helped launch a commercial leasing management platform as part of Techstars Global Startup Weekend 2017. We won the whole planet!  I built Leasecake in less than 72 hours on Vue.js and Laravel. The product you see now is the same one from that fateful weekend! It has since grown under my direction as a tech lead where I was responsible for specing requirements, recruiting and managing team members on our agile methodology, and setting up infrastructure on GCP.

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Sensarie

Sensarie

Pronounced similarly to "sensory," it is a startup dedicated to helping you find the perfect neighborhood in Orlando, Florida.  The founding team hired me for consulting and development. I ported their existing Node.js codebase to GitHub, setup an architecture based on smaller, proprietary npm packages, and proceeded with implementing major features such on-boarding from hi-fi mockups.

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The Cleaning Studio

The Cleaning Studio

On-demand home cleaning services in Brisbane, Australia.  I built their on-boarding experience in vanilla JavaScript and CSS, powered by a serverless backend hosted on AWS' Lambda and exposed via API Gateway. Additionally, I build their internal email notification infrastructure on SES.

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Rapido

Rapido

Rapido was a mobile app for requesting services such as plumbing, electric, and HVAC.  As a part of Starter Studio Accelerator 1.0, I spent my time conducting user interviews, designing, building, and marketing. I had the pleasure of being featured on a few different news outlets. The iOS was an early adopter of the Swift programming language. The apis where powered by Express.js and PostgreSQL.

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Community Engineering

Orlando Jelly

Orlando Jelly

Founder

A weekly co-working meetup.  I'm really passionate about remote work and community. Orlando Jelly was founded to bring professionals together at their own leisure. It's more about a human connection than it is work, as life should be.

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Vue.js Orlando

Vue.js Orlando

Founder

Orlando's very own platform for learning about Vue.js.  Aside from evangilizing the tech community, this meetup is dedicated to promoting diversity. We're so passionate about it, we made the logo a rainbow!

RSVP
LGBT+ & Allies in Tech Orlando

LGBT+ & Allies in Tech Orlando

Founder

Formerly a monthly gathering to promote diversity and inclusion.  We gather for drinks to discuss issues in the industry and meet like-minded people.

Elsewhere

Let's Chat

I’m always happy to have a conversation about design, code, taoism, the weather, The Arnolfini Portrait... anything really!

Send me a message via porialex at Google mail. You can also find my social profiles at the bottom of this page.

This Website

Designed in Figma. You can view mockups and process online.

Built on VuePress. Take a look at the code.

Primary color chosen is Baker-Miller pink.

Type set in Libre Baskerville & Libre Franklin.

Icons provided by Feather.

Thank You

There are lot of people I have met over the past year or so that have had a big impact on me. Whether we’ve had multiple outings, or even one brief conversation, I thank you for helping me find me.

Linsy Joyner, Anna Gerber, Zoë Bijl, Sarah Smith, Gregg Pollack, Adam Jahr, David K. 🎹, Ash Kyd, Greg Leibowitz, Miriam Suzanne, Sarah Drasner, & many, many others.