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