daniel-fernandez — portfolio

experience.md

// experience.md — background & work history

Full-stack developer and CS junior at Queens College, CUNY — building full-stack products and real-time systems, most recently as a Software Engineer Intern at Crcle, an AI startup, after previously interning on the Wall Street Journal Web Brand team at Dow Jones.

Queens College, CUNY
B.S. Computer Science · expected Dec 2027

Coursework in Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Databases, Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, and Object-Oriented Programming.

Crcle
Software Engineer Intern
Sep 2026 – Present · Remote
Dow Jones & Company
Software Engineer Intern — Wall Street Journal Web Brand
Jun 2026 – Aug 2026 · New York, NY
  • Led a cross-functional intern team to build an AI-powered testing harness — packaged as a Claude Skill — that maps cross-repo code dependencies and auto-generates Jest unit tests and Playwright e2e tests informed by Jira context.
  • Patched a structural rendering issue within a shared component library, resolving a bug that injected duplicate HTML tags and ensuring correct semantic and SEO baseline compliance across 3 site sections.
  • Root-caused a rendering bug in a WSJ content module, tracing missing props in Next.js SSR data-fetching to broken visual output and broken hyperlink behavior, and documented findings for senior engineering handoff.
  • Merged production code to dynamically swap news buckets on the WSJ homepage, improving content delivery for 4.1M+ subscribers.
CUNY Tech Prep
Software Engineer Fellow — Web Dev Track
Jul 2025 – Jun 2026 · New York, NY
  • Designed the relational data model and Figma wireframes for M.A.P.S., a full-stack academic planning platform (React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL) built to scale for 2,000+ Queens College undergraduates, centralizing course mapping, professor metrics, and schedule creation.
  • Built a Puppeteer-based scraping pipeline to source real-time course data and implemented 10+ REST API endpoints — including database transactions and fallback logic — alongside Firebase Authentication and core React frontend pages.
  • Led development for a 4-person team, assigning tasks, reviewing team members' work, and directing key technical decisions within an Agile fellowship structured around Scrum routines, sprint cycles, and Git/GitHub workflows.
Google x BASTA
Software Engineer Mentee
Feb 2026 – May 2026 · Remote
  • Selected for the Google Software Engineering Mentorship Program through BASTA, participating in weekly 1:1 mentorship with a Google engineer.
  • Strengthened data structures, algorithms, and technical interview problem-solving skills through guided practice and technical workshops.
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