Fernando Falci
Software Engineer
Contact
- +1 (302) 687 3667
- fernando@falci.me
- falci.me
- Costa Rica
- fernandofalci
- falci
Skills
Frontend
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsHTML/CSS
Backend
Node.jsGraphQLJava
Infrastructure
AWSVercelModule Federation
Blockchain
BitcoinLightning NetworkHandshakeWeb3
Leadership
Agile / ScrumTDDCode ReviewsMentoring
Languages
- PortugueseNative
- EnglishFluent
- SpanishAdvanced
Education
- UniCesumarOO Development in Java2012 – 2013*
- UNIPARAnalysis & Software Development2007 – 2009
Fernando Falci
Software Engineer
falci.me/cv
Profile
Full-stack software engineer with 15+ years of professional experience across startups and enterprise environments, specializing in React frontends, Node.js backends, and technical leadership. Hands-on by nature and equally comfortable setting technical direction, running hiring processes, and presenting to stakeholders.
Career highlights include leading the Backbone-to-React migration at eDreams (10k+ DAU, zero downtime), architecting a micro-frontend platform at Adevinta (one of Europe's largest marketplace groups), and most recently serving as CTO of Namebase.io, the largest platform in the Handshake blockchain ecosystem.
Work Experience
- Sr. Software Engineer / CTO2022 – 2026
- Owned the full technology roadmap for namebase.io and hns.id, the primary Handshake domain marketplace and resolution platform, leading a cross-functional remote team of smart contract engineers, backend developers, and UX designers.
- Coordinated engineers contributing to the Handshake open-source protocol repository, bridging platform requirements with core protocol development.
- Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 40% through targeted architectural changes and resource rightsizing; built observability from scratch with unified metrics, dashboards, and alerting, cutting incident response times significantly.
- Implemented EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) integrations, expanding platform compatibility with global domain registries and opening new partnership opportunities.
- AdevintaSr. Software EngineerFeb 2020 – Feb 2023
- At Adevinta, one of Europe's largest digital marketplace groups (Leboncoin, Milanuncios, Willhaben; 3B+ annual revenue): architected a Module Federation-based refactor of the internal backoffice, enabling 4+ teams to deploy independently and cutting conflicts by 45%.
- Contributed to the company's Federated GraphQL layer, standardizing data-access patterns and improving query performance; championed test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and code review culture adopted across the frontend guild.
- eDreams OdigeoSr. Software EngineerJun 2017 – Feb 2020
- Led the full migration of eDreams' primary booking interface from Backbone.js to React (10,000+ daily active users, zero downtime), delivering 30% faster load times and a 40% reduction in codebase size.
- Designed and ran a systematic A/B testing programme alongside product and design, increasing feature adoption rates by 20%.
- Mobile-DIDevelopment Analyst2015 – Mar 2018
- Managed a distributed team delivering Angular applications for enterprise clients, owning architectural decisions, establishing coding standards, and mentoring junior developers through structured code reviews.
- Served as primary technical contact for stakeholders, translating business requirements into engineering plans and delivery timelines.
Open Source
- Principal Coordinator2020 – Present
- Principal coordinator of the HIPs repository, the formal process for proposing and ratifying changes to the Handshake protocol, analogous to Bitcoin's BIPs.
- Authored HIP2, which was adopted by multiple ecosystem projects including BobWallet.
- Also maintain hns.dev, an open-source resource hub for the Handshake ecosystem.
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