Fernando Rejon Barrera

Fernando Rejon Barrera has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries.

Their most recent role is the CTO at Zeta Alpha, where they started in May 2023. Prior to this role, they served as the Head of Engineering from October 2022 to May 2023, and as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer from March 2020 to November 2022.

In 2021, Fernando founded conformal.link, a company for which they serve as the Founder.

Before that, they worked at White Lioness technologies as a Full Stack Engineer + DevOps from November 2018 to March 2020. In this role, they led the transition to SRE, migrated legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes and Istio, and migrated a monolith to microservices with event-driven communication.

In 2018, Fernando worked as a Junior Data Science Researcher at Maastricht University Institute of Data Science, where they created a pipeline for mining city data from public API and conducted exploratory analysis and descriptive statistics.

From 2014 to 2018, Fernando pursued a PHD at the University of Amsterdam. During this time, they also worked as a Teaching Assistant for several courses and contributed to the design of the master's course Advanced Quantum Field Theory.

In 2010, Fernando co-founded micuyo.com, an online store that brought innovative and low-cost products to the small-pet market in Mexico. Fernando also worked as a Freelance E-Commerce Site Developer, creating customized E-commerce sites for clients.

Fernando also gained research experience as a Master Thesis Student at the University of Amsterdam and as a Research Assistant at the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares - UNAM.

Overall, Fernando Rejon Barrera brings a wealth of experience in various technical roles, from engineering and data science to teaching and entrepreneurship.

Fernando Rejon Barrera earned their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from the University of Amsterdam, completing their studies from 2014 to 2018. Prior to this, they obtained their Master of Science (MS) degree in the same field from the University of Amsterdam, studying from 2012 to 2014. Their undergraduate studies in Physics were conducted at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where they received their Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from 2008 to 2012.

In addition to their formal education, Fernando Rejon Barrera has obtained several certifications. In November 2018, they completed the courses "Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning," "Introduction to Deep Learning," and "Machine Learning" through Coursera. In June 2015, they obtained a certification in "Teaching skills for teaching assistants" from the University of Amsterdam. Fernando also holds a certification in "Genetic Algorithms" from the CENTRO DE CIENCIAS APLICADAS Y DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO (CCADET)-UNAM, which they earned in June 2010.