Hola, I'm Frances! 🍓🍫

I'm a senior software engineer, a fierce advocate for diversity in tech, and a doting Corgi mom. 👩🏽‍💻

I have over six years of full-time software engineering experience with a heavy focus on product and web frontend development. My specialties lie in growth engineering, design systems, and accessibility. 🛠️

Outside work, I enjoy speaking, teaching, and mentoring to lead by example and inspire the next generation of software engineers. 🚀

I am based in the Greater Cleveland area, with my partner and our two Corgis, Luna & Sueño. 🐾

I was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, and I identify as Peruvian-American. 🇵🇪

I am passionate about supporting and uplifting Latinx professionals in tech (especially Latina software engineers), employee resource groups, and software engineering apprentices. 💛

GitHub

I've enjoyed having my work published through GitHub's ReadME project.

Story

My open source journey is featured on GitHub's README blog.

Guide

ONWARD: A framework for maintaining maintainers was published as a GitHub ReadME guide.

Podcast

I gave my two cents on the art of finding your open source mentor on the ReadME Podcast (18:20).

I also gave a shout-out to a fellow maintainer for her work on Latina Dev on another README Podcast (43:20).

Adopted Emoji

I'm the proud sponsor of the 👩🏽‍💻️ emoji through The Unicode Consortium.

Ask Me Anything

Discord

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