The family moved to Kota Kinabalu within a month of his birth where his father took up a job as chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper.

[3] After high school, Fernandez earned a journalism degree from Curtin University, then completed a broadcasting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

[4] Fernandez joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2000 working as a producer for ABC Local Radio.

In December 2012, Fernandez replaced Felicity Davey as ABC News NSW weekend presenter.

In May 2018, the ABC flew Fernandez and Annabel Crabb to London to host coverage of the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

[7] In 2022 and 2023, Fernandez was a presenter for the ABC's coverage of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

[9] In February 2013, Fernandez was racially abused by a female fellow passenger on a Sydney bus for about 15 minutes, while taking his two-year-old daughter to child care.

My daughter is now 12 and shares this story to her friends at school to show how the world needs to be changed and things like this racist act happen without high recognition.Fernandez says that, after the woman and her children left the bus, other passengers offered him their names and contact details as witnesses to the incident.