I’m available for consulting work.

Skills

  • Formalization: I enjoy the process of taking vague, abstract product design ideas and formalizing them into a concrete software object.
  • Rust: love it, and use it for most personal projects. I can build greenfield projects, migrate existing services, or teach it to your team.
  • SQL: I’ve done a lot of work on optimizing query performance without sacrificing normalization; and migrating messy schemas to clean, normalized designs.
  • Compilers: parsers, compilers, and DSLs. If you need a bespoke programming language, or language tooling, or you need to migrate data from an inscrutable legacy format, I can help.
  • APIs: I’ve spent most of my career building backend web services, so I have a lot of experience with designing and implementing REST APIs and SQL schemas.

Traits

  • Low Latency: I take a lot of pride in replying to things fast.
  • Polyglot: I am not a “Python programmer” or a “functional programmer”, or a partisan for a particular tech stack. I like learning new languages and tools and I make technical decisions dispassionately.
  • Literate: I’m a great technical writer. I can write terse, rigorous prose to help you make hard technical decisions, or to help onboard new people.

Services

  • Implementation: I build your software, from prototype to production.
  • Research: you have a technical question you want an answer to.
  • Training: I teach your team about Rust, SQL, functional programming, etc.
  • Compliance: your clients want to know your systems are secure. I can help with SOC2 certification, both on the technical side and the business policy side, from zero to audit.

Contact

Say hello: fernando@borretti.me

Testimonials

Iceberg Quantum

Iceberg Quantum is a startup building fault-tolerant architectures for quantum computing.

We’re a research-heavy early start up, and brought Fernando in to help us with the broad aim of professionalising our approach to software as we scale up.

Fernando was fantastic at listening to our often ambiguous technical needs and working with us to find the best solution. Specifically, he helped build our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, as well as tools to accelerate our research and improve reproducibility. He also helped us develop our coding practices, and left our software base in a much better place than when he started.

Fernando worked extremely well with the team. He took it upon himself to talk to people, learn the domain and find the pain points we had so he could suggest ways that we could do things better. He was great to have around and made the team better through the way he worked with others.

— Sam Smith, CTO & co-founder, Iceberg Quantum