Reinier Hernández

Full-Stack Engineer

// suriname, sr · UTC-3

I build tools, break things, and live inside the terminal.

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Scouting report

Seasoned tooling & backend engineer — FastAPI contributor

assessed from open-source footprint

Principal

92signal

Reinier is a terminal-native backend and developer-tools engineer with 11+ years on GitHub, 184 merged PRs, and a contribution to FastAPI itself (98k★). He builds and maintains real tooling — Neovim plugins (whereami.nvim) and the QvaPay Python SDK — across Python, TypeScript, Shell and Lua. A verified, prolific engineer (2,700+ commits last year) and a strong fit for backend, CLI, or developer-experience roles.

Authorship & open source

Primary authorwrote 98% of commits on whereami.nvim

184 merged PRs2,778 commits / yr6 external projects12 reviews8,888 private contributions / yr

Contributes to

fastapi/fastapi98,670★
elC0mpa/aws-doctor422★
el-frontend/video-wizard13★
FLISol-Cuba/flisol.dev6★

What they build

Backend38%

Frontend25%

Data / ML21%

DevOps11%

Industry experience

Developer Tools
Data, ML & AI
Fintech & Payments

Signal breakdown

Originality90

Impact100

Consistency100

Polish68

Stars

155

top repo 21

Original repos

24% forks

Followers

112

On GitHub

11.7 yr

Live demos

Activity

Active

24% stale

Strengths

Verified author — wrote 98% of commits on whereami.nvim
Open-source contributor — 6 external projects incl. fastapi/fastapi (98,670★)
184 merged pull requests
2,778 commits in the past year
Original builder — 59 of their own repositories
155 stars earned across projects
Ships to production — 23 live demos

About

I build tools, break things, and live inside the terminal. — 115 public repositories and 112 followers on GitHub.

Skills

Python
TypeScript
Shell
Lua
HTML
Api Client
Astro
TeX

Featured work

Whereami Nvim

A simple plugin for neovim to get the current location

Lua
Hacktoberfest
Localization
Neovim Plugin

by Reinier Hernández

Qvapay Python

Non official, but friendly QvaPay library for the Python language.

Python
Api Client
Qvapay
Sdk

by Reinier Hernández

gsmart

The smart way to write your commit messages using Conventional Commits.

TypeScript
Ai
Anthropic Claude
Commit
Git

by Reinier Hernández

Nvim Store

A neovim plugin magazine

TypeScript
Hacktoberfest
Nvim
Nvim Web

by Reinier Hernández

Cookiecutter Django

Simple cookiecutter for django

Python
Cookiecutter
Cookiecutter Django
Cookiecutter Template
Django

by Reinier Hernández

Tasa Cambio Proxy

A Next.js application that displays real-time Cuban currency exchange rates (USD, EUR, MLC) from El Toque's TRMI (Tasa Representativa del Mercado Inf…

TypeScript
Cuba
Exchange Rates

by Reinier Hernández