Naledi Fernandez

Summary

Naledi Fernandez is a senior backend engineer (11 yrs) based in Remote (South Africa). Ships TypeScript services on Postgres with clear ownership of fintech APIs at scale.

Experience

• Junior Software Engineerat Acme2015–now

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved retention by 41%.
  • Built a data pipeline adopted by 24 teammates.
  • Mentored 2 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Engineering Leadat Pied Piper2012–2015

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved latency by 44%.
  • Built a design system adopted by 25 teammates.
  • Mentored 3 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Principal Engineerat Vodacom2009–2012

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved NPS by 47%.
  • Built a tooling framework adopted by 26 teammates.
  • Mentored 4 engineers; ran the interview loop.

Education

• BA · Engineering

  University of Pretoria · 2009–2013

Communication log

Recent comms

• outboundemail8/6/2026, 12:02:59 PM
  Offer details

  Touching base on the ML Engineer · senior · axdemo #014 search. Happy to share more context when useful.

• outboundlinkedin8/6/2026, 5:02:59 AMby Elle

  Touching base on the ML Engineer · senior · axdemo #014 search. Happy to share more context when useful.

• inboundemail8/5/2026, 10:02:59 PM
  Screening call invitation

  Touching base on the ML Engineer · senior · axdemo #014 search. Happy to share more context when useful.

• outboundemail8/4/2026, 3:02:59 AMby Elle
  Following up on the brief

  Touching base on the Computer Vision Engineer · senior · axdemo #071 search. Happy to share more context when useful.