Hola, I'm Frances! 🍓🍫
I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Slack, a fierce advocate for diversity in tech, and a doting Corgi mom. 👩🏽💻
I hold a BS in Computer Science from Hampton University and an MS in Computer Science from Cornell Tech. I've been working full-time as a software engineer since June 2017, with 8+ years specializing in frontend engineering, React, TypeScript, and AI-assisted developer tooling.
I'm currently on Slack's Messaging pillar, focused on AI adoption and developer productivity. I build agentic workflows and internal tooling that help engineers move faster with AI. I also served briefly as an Engineering Manager on the Lists team in early 2025.
Outside work, I've spoken at 100+ events and logged 250+ hours mentoring engineers through technical and behavioral interview prep. 🚀
I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area with my two Corgis, Luna and Sueño. 🐾 I was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, and I identify as Peruvian-American. 🇵🇪
I'm passionate about making technical leadership more accessible, especially for Latinas and underrepresented engineers. 💛
- 🏆 Latinos 40 Under 40™ Class of 2025 for San Francisco/Silicon Valley
- 📣 Speaker at 100+ events: conference talks, workshops, panels
- 🤝 250+ hours of mentoring: 1:1 sessions for underrepresented engineers
- 📰 Featured in GitHub ReadME: story, guide, podcast
- 🎓 MS Computer Science at Cornell Tech and BS Computer Science at Hampton University
My personal site is self-hosted on Vercel, built with Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS 4, MDX, and Pagefind search. 665+ blog posts, fully static, zero database.
Proud to have my work published through GitHub's ReadME project.
- Story: My open source journey
- Guide: ONWARD: A framework for maintaining maintainers
- Podcast: The art of finding your open source mentor (18:20)
- Podcast: Shoutout to a fellow maintainer working on Latina Dev (43:20)
I'm the proud sponsor of the 👩🏽💻 emoji through The Unicode Consortium.
