Antall Fernandes

Director, Engineering at Drizly

Antall Fernandes is the Director of Engineering at Drizly. Antall has been with the company since March 2015, and in that time, they have focused on data quality and enabling teams to adopt better practices around data generation and consumption. Antall has also driven initiatives and processes to scale up the engineering teams.

Before joining Drizly, Fernandes was a Senior Software Engineer at Visible Measures from March 2012 to February 2015. There, they streamlined the software development process and moved towards continuous delivery. Antall also redesigned certain core business systems, leveraging newer languages and frameworks.

Fernandes began their career as a Research Graduate (Intern) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from May 2010 to August 2011. There, they single-handedly developed a scientific data management system for the nuclear imaging group in the Life Sciences Division. The web-based system was developed using Ruby on Rails and Javascript with a MySQL backend. Fernandes made use of the jQuery JavaScript library to provide a highly interactive and functional GUI. The system is critical to a number of research facilities across the world, helping them share research studies and results with each other. Fernandes ensured adherence to industry recognized software development practices, such as Test Driven Development and Behavior driven development, using Cucumber and RSpec. Antall was also tasked with evaluating and deciding the application technology stack and development processes. In addition, Fernandes analysed business requirements and documented design specifications for new features and enhancements in each sprint cycle.

Antall Fernandes has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology, a Masters Diploma of Science in Computer Science from the Symbiosis Center for Information Technology, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Pune University.

Their manager is Dan Chen, VP, Engineering. They work with Jillian Kando - Director, Engineering, Bill Desmarais - Director, Engineering.

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  • Director, Engineering

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