Summary
Jacob Hernandez is a Production Engineer at Meta with nine years of software engineering experience, focusing on production reliability and performance for large-scale cloud platforms. He previously led VPS performance engineering in VMware Cloud Foundation as part of Broadcom after their acquisition, and before that contributed to VMware Platform Services for vSAN. Based in San Francisco, he is a UC Davis computer science alum who blends hands-on software development with production operations and is a hobby programmer. His career includes an early stint as a Starbucks barista, illustrating a non-linear path into tech. He has a proven ability to ship robust, scalable infrastructure across VMware, Broadcom, and Meta, bringing end-to-end perspective from hardware considerations to service delivery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Transfer Prerequisite, Computer Science, Transfer Prerequisite, Computer Science at Cosumnes River College