Yusef Habib Fernández
Product-minded Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of software delivery and engineering leadership experience. I build understandable, useful products across decentralized infrastructure, insurance, government integrations, and education. At DFINITY, I work on Internet Computer governance and Open Cloud.
Experience
DFINITY Foundation, Senior Software Engineer | ZürichNov. 2024 - Present
- Proposed and led a simpler governance application alongside the established Governance App experience
- Drive customer-facing product work for Open Cloud, including cloud-engine purchase, deployment, and management journeys
iptiQ, Engineering Manager - Integrations | ZürichOct. 2022 - Nov. 2024
- Led motor-insurance authority integrations across Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain
- Personally built Heimdall, an operational interface that recovered an estimated 50% of the team's operational capacity
iptiQ, Engineering Manager, Quote & Bind | ZürichAug. 2021 - Jun. 2023
- Led four engineers and one test engineer while remaining hands-on with a configuration-driven insurance frontend
- Helped support at least 18 product configurations across five countries and more than ten commercial brands or partner groups
iptiQ, Senior Software Engineer | ZürichAug. 2019 - Jul. 2021
- Built the first Quote & Bind purchase journey and started its configurable frontend foundation
- Built self-service email tooling that changed content updates from a sprint-scale developer process to a workflow completed within minutes
Academy Constructor, Lecturer and Curriculum Contributor | Zürich Apr. 2017 - Dec. 2025
- Taught an estimated 500+ learners across approximately 50 web-engineering cohorts
Ginetta, Senior Frontend Engineer | ZürichAug. 2017 - Jul. 2019
- Swica - Led delivery recovery for a conversational insurance checkout. SWICA later reported an internal 40% relative conversion increase over the previous experience
- eTax - Built a production component library with theming for different Swiss cantons
- Axpo - Contributed to an energy-trading platform and improved interface consistency
Fischer Computertechnik, Software Engineer | GermanyAug. 2015 - Mar. 2017
- Migrated the main application from Spring + Thymeleaf(SSR) to a single-page application (SPA) using Angular 2.0
- Developed a component library to increase consistency between applications and accelerate the development cycle
Skills
Programming: TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, Kotlin
Product engineering: React, Next.js, software architecture, UX, design systems
Leadership: Technical direction, team leadership, people management, stakeholder alignment
Platforms: Internet Computer, AWS application environments, Kafka event flows
Languages: Spanishn, Englisha, Germanm, Italianb
** n: native, a: advanced, m: medium, b: basic
Education
Bradfield School of Computer Science2021 - 2022
Computer Science IntensiveUniversity of Oviedo2007 - 2014
BSc. + MSc. in Telecommunication Engineering