Fernando Nygaard

• Led and scaled a Scrum-based engineering team, improving delivery predictability and reducing release cycle time by ~30% through better backlog refinement, sprint planning, and technical prioritization. • Mentored senior and mid-level engineers, establishing coding standards, architecture reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions that reduced onboarding time for new hires. • Integrated enterprise systems with SAP using SAML and OpenID Connect, enabling secure SSO for external partners and reducing support ticket volume by 30%, allowing the team to focus fully on new feature delivery. • Designed and developed a cloud-native B2B platform from scratch, serving as the company’s main product, integrating Java/Spring backend services with modern frontends and AWS infrastructure. • Built and evolved RESTful APIs consumed by internal portals and external clients, supporting high transaction volumes and maintaining 99.9% system availability. • Optimized PostgreSQL databases and PL/pgSQL business logic, reducing critical query execution times by up to 40% while supporting 10TB-scale data processing. • Actively contributed to architecture decisions, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud cost optimization, ensuring scalability and long-term maintainability as the platform and customer base grew.

• Brought in as a contract engineer to support enterprise Java systems for a large corporate client (Dell), working on mission-critical applications running on WebLogic. Contributed to system stability, defect resolution, and delivery of features in a highly regulated enterprise environment.

• Engaged as a short-term consultant to develop and support financial data processing and integration pipelines, working with large datasets for analytics and reporting. Implemented data ingestion and transformation workflows and supported business intelligence use cases for financial analysis.

Software Engineer → Tech Lead → Software Development Coordinator • Progressed from Software Engineer to Tech Lead and later Engineering Coordinator over 13 years, reflecting increasing technical and leadership responsibility. • Contributed to the early development and later scaling of WebEDI, the company’s flagship platform, processing up to 200K electronic documents per day for major retailers and suppliers. • Led technical design and delivery of B2B collaborative portals for large enterprises (e.g., Whirlpool, Electrolux, Bunge), handling up to 5 million transactions per month across orders, invoices, payments, and catalogs. • Coordinated a 30-person engineering organization across 16 concurrent projects, balancing hands- on technical leadership with people management and delivery execution. • Drove adoption of Agile and Scrum practices, improving delivery cadence, cross-team alignment, and system reliability in business-critical environments.