David Lazaro Fernandez
David Lazaro Fernandez

Software Engineer

Software engineer from Mexico working on billing and monetization at Airtable. Before that I built workflow tooling, logistics simulations, and monitoring pipelines, and I still love hackathons and the communities around them.

Experience

Airtable2025 – Present

Software Engineer, Billing & Monetization

Building the billing systems behind Airtable's subscriptions, from checkout and payments to taxes, credits, and plan changes.

  • Internationalized the billing tax system across 20+ countries, letting business customers deduct VAT and correctly processing $13M+ in VAT
  • Launched a redesigned checkout for all customers with new Stripe payment methods (Google Pay, Apple Pay, Cash App) and an add-on purchase flow, driving a 7–12% increase in new paid subscriptions
  • Overhauled the company-wide credit expiration system, expiring $15M+ in stale credits and replacing manual cleanup with continuous expiration, Datadog monitoring, and automated reporting
  • Redesigned the team's plan-validation pattern to close a vulnerability that let free-tier users downgrade paying customers, protecting $2M+ in ARR
  • Shipped in-app banners that alert customers to failing payments, recovering $800K+ a month in churning revenue
  • Built Doggo, an AI agent adopted by 4 teams that finds patterns in Datadog alerts and writes reports on them
  • Co-developed Cloud Dev Environments, letting 30+ developers run agents together with shared system prompts, configs, and skills

Blend2024 – 2025

Workflow Engineer

Ran tests and rollouts for mortgage clients' workflows alongside six program managers.

  • Built parallel processing flows for Compeer Ag Lending, cutting W2 and tax return upload times by 44%
  • Engineered a sandboxing platform for integration node versioning with Next.js and Redis, so workflow teams could run parallel tests in simulated dev environments
  • Led on-call investigations into cross-system mortgage pipeline issues using Datadog and Observe
  • Kept 94% on-time delivery on milestones by managing project schedules in Jira

AspenTech2023 – 2024

SDE I

Worked on logistics and crew-management tools, from requirements calls with stakeholders to shipping.

  • Built a vehicle logistics simulation tool on our maps, cutting client demo time for Solution Engineers by 61%
  • Migrated Angular data grids to DevExtreme, reducing crew data load times from 2.2s to 0.4s
  • Optimized data generation scripts for the crew simulator, improving database stress tests and map performance by 35%
  • Fixed critical security vulnerabilities in a Java API by refining endpoints and adding middleware

Major League Hacking2023 – 2024

Coach

Coached hackers through their projects as a part-time mentor.

CIMAT2023

Research Intern

Researched near-real-time anxiety detection for VR users.

  • Fine-tuned a Vision Transformer on heart-rate spectrograms, improving F1 score by 15% over the baseline
  • Designed the experimental framework for collecting heart rate and HRV data across 89+ sessions

NU Bank2022 – 2023

Intern

  • Wrote an extensive Cypress test suite, reducing defect rates by 35%
  • Worked with QA to assess API performance and availability, reducing production errors by 45%

Meta2022

Production Engineer Fellow

One of 100 students selected for the Production Engineering Fellowship by MLH and Meta.

  • Set up cAdvisor, Prometheus, and Grafana monitoring, reducing workflow errors and warnings by 15%
  • Automated branch tests and deployment with GitHub Actions, improving the internal development workflow by 33%

Hackademy2021

Front-End Developer Intern

Built an open-source social network with a remote team of six Latin American developers.

  • Designed the UI and built the front end and core components with Next.js

Consultancy

M.L Cats Consultancy

  • Designed and planned Pescapp, an offline-first trip tracker for fishermen, from the client proposal to a Flutter app and a Streamlit dashboard
  • Redesigned Sis Devices, turning an industrial safety supplier's brochure site into a bilingual online store with an admin dashboard
  • Designed the ticketing flow and built the internal dashboard for Astral Tickets, with generated seat maps and printed tickets

Projects

Matiné

Competitive intelligence for movie theaters in Mexico. It captures the showtimes, prices, and seat maps of the two largest chains nationwide three times a day, and powers a dashboard, a public API, and a group outing recommender.

Audio Visualizer

The Xbox 360 blade dashboard rebuilt in the browser, with a music player that analyzes real audio and eleven WebGL visualizers, including ports of Geiss and MilkDrop.

Astral Tickets

A ticketing platform for live events: a site for finding events and choosing seats, and a dashboard with seat maps generated from venue data and ticket printing for the box office.

Sis Devices

A redesign of an industrial safety supplier's website into an online store, with a catalog, technical product pages, cart, checkout, and an admin dashboard. Built with Next.js and Firebase.

Pescapp

Real-time location tracking for fishermen. A Flutter app records each trip offline and syncs it to Firebase when there's coverage, and a Streamlit dashboard draws every route on a map.

Delulu

1st place at Hack MTY 2024, Gen AI challenge. We pointed cameras at the sponsor booths of a 1,500-person hackathon and turned the footage into heatmaps of where people gathered and how long they stayed.

omegaUp

Landing page designed in Figma and built in HTML and CSS for omegaUp, a nonprofit empowering the next generation of Latin American software engineers.

Accessible Companion

A geolocation tool that helps make public places more accessible to people with visual disabilities. Built with Azure and Power Apps.

Chikoo

A chatbot that helps patients without internet access fill out their medical history before a consultation. Built with Azure and Twilio.

Hardware

Billy Bass

A singing fish from a flea market, rewired with an ESP32 into a Bluetooth speaker and a voice assistant. Its mouth follows the music and the replies, and it answers in six personalities, from a Soprano to a pirate.

Awards

1st Place, Qualcomm Hacks Mexico

2025

1st Place, Hack MTY Gen AI Challenge (200 teams)

2024

Top 10, Hack MTY (100 teams)

2024

3rd Place, Hack Mexico (60 teams)

2024

1st Place, Accenture Ideathon

2022

3rd Place, Talent Land Hackathon (50 teams)

2021

Communities

Bisontech — Founded one of the most important technology communities at my university.

GitHub Campus Experts

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors

Education

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León — B.S. in Computer Science

2023