Obie Fernandez
Chief Technology Officer at Kickass Consulting
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarObie Fernandez is a technology executive and Principal Engineer at Shopify with 25+ years of experience turning web platforms and developer teams into scalable competitive advantages. He founded Hashrocket, served as founding CTO of Andela where he designed the selective training program (acceptance below 1%) that helped the company scale across 110+ countries, and is the best-selling author of The Rails Way. Today he focuses on the intersection of Ruby on Rails and AI—driving developer acceleration at Shopify and previously founding AI-enabled teams at Olympia. Known for attracting and mentoring top-tier engineering talent, he blends hands-on engineering, product and platform strategy, and startup-scale leadership to turn ideas into category-defining businesses. Based in New York, he pairs deep Rails credibility and open-source influence with executive-level strategy and operational delivery.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (194)
api-client10
azure-functions10
mvc10
ruby10
mobile-web10
activerecord10
serverless10
ruby-on-rails10
chatgpt10
whisper10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
api10
html10
lambda10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
obie/guide-to-reactive-rails
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
A comprehensive guide to online resources about "Reactive" Ruby on Rails development
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrails-developmentruby-on
OlympiaAI/raix
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Ruby AI eXtensions
Contributions:9 releases, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
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