Apr 2023 – Sep 2023 · 5 mos

• I took some time off to focus on my family after my father passed away.
• Some things I enjoyed doing during this time:
• Mentoring software engineers through Formation (formation.dev)
• Maintaining the open-source project Latina Dev (latina.dev)
• Blogging on my personal website (francescoronel.com)

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Formation is a virtual fellowship program for software engineers who seek impactful roles and career growth at the most innovative tech companies in the industry.
• I specialize in group and 1:1 technical behavioral mock interview prep sessions and have logged over 100 hours from March 2023 to January 2025.

Feb 2023 – Apr 2023 · 2 mos · Remote

• JupiterOne is building a cloud-native software platform to deliver knowledge, transparency, and confidence to every digital operation in every organization, large or small.
• I was offered a design system engineering role but due to business needs, I ended up working on the compliance team, which manages a customer's ability to import and manage any compliance standard or framework as a set of controls or requirements.
• Responsibilities
• Developed and implemented net new features for the Compliance Platform, such as updating the evidence view to make it easier for users to interact with
• Fixed a bug where dropdown values weren't loading due to an Apollo query issue
• Conducted comprehensive documentation and testing of new components, ensuring high-quality standards were met in all aspects of software development
• Contributed to the ongoing evolution of Juno, the company's in-house design system, by adding new status options for the data table built on top of MUI
• Proposed a new standard for automatic React importing to the frontend forum, demonstrating thought leadership and innovative thinking in software engineering practices
• Qualifications
• Experience with Material UI and JSS
• Familiar with GraphQL and Apollo GraphQL library
• Experience with full-stack development
• Exposure to Typescript
• Familiarity with Storybook
• Exposure to MicroFrontend Architecture

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Remote

• Fullstack Academy offers tuition-free coding and cybersecurity bootcamps for eligible Amazon associates through Career Choice benefits.
• I went full circle and taught aspiring software engineers through Fullstack Academy, the coding bootcamp I attended during college.
• I taught frontend foundations to Amazon fulfillment employees through the Amazon Career Choice partnership for a few hours weekly.
• Left in May to focus on family.

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most in-demand careers with comprehensive, mentor-led online programs in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, UI/UX design, and more.
• Through their Software Engineering program, I mentored a student from their Amazon Career Choice partnership for thirty minutes every week.
• Left in May to focus on family.

Feb 2022 – Jan 2023 · 11 mos · Remote

• Byteboard is a startup focused on recreating the technical interview experience to be more effective, efficient, and equitable for all.
• I joined as the 10th hire and 3rd software engineer after Byteboard spun out from Google in October 2021.
• I worked with React, TypeScript, Next.js, MUI, and Firebase to add user-facing features.
• Key Projects
• Redesigned dashboard with 4 conditional states to efficiently manage candidate data
• Improved top-of-funnel flow resulting in a better interview experience for 20K+ yearly candidates
• Enabled self-serve abilities for 60+ clients to perform interview actions on candidates more efficiently
• Introduced redesign of skills report view and received 4 positive client testimonials
• Developed a new design system to streamline component reuse across a team of 5 engineers
• Responsibilities
• Building new product features from start to finish, working cross-functionally through project conception, research, implementation, release, and maintenance
• Improving performance and reliability and polishing existing features
• Developing internal tools to support simplicity and productivity for the whole team
• Participating in planning to help shape the product and vision over the long term

Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Springboard provides 21st century skills through mentor-led online courses.
• I have 1:1 calls with students for the software engineering prep course to help guide them through it.
• Mentored 5+ students.

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Techqueria is a nonprofit that serves the largest global community of Latinx professionals in tech.
• As the Executive Director of Techqueria, I wore a lot of different hats. I was in charge of partnerships, onboarding new staff members, marketing strategy, event planning, coordination, growing our chapters, community building, maintaining our software and online presence, creating OKRs, and creating a culture of transparency throughout the org.
• I started volunteering for Techqueria back in April 2018 and helped launch Techqueria's new website and win our first grant. I started getting into a leadership role beginning in 2019 when the existing board invited me to join as a board member. In 2020, I became the first paid staff member as an Executive Director.
• I take great joy in what the org has been able to accomplish. Since incorporating as a 501c3 nonprofit in March 2019, Techqueria grew from 8,500 to 15,000+ members and allies. We grew from 3,000 Slack members to nearly 10,000, as you can see today. We started hiring employees and quadrupled our revenue to $220K+ in 2020, with almost $50K going to those impacted by COVID-19.
• Highlights
• ∙ First paid staff member for the nonprofit
• ∙ Managed a group of 5+ staff and 30+ volunteers
• ∙ Led the launch of our annual LHM Summit in 2020 which had over 1,400 attendees
• ∙ Oversaw 400% growth in members in 2019
• ∙ Spearheaded new corporate partner strategy leading to 370% increase in gross profit from 2019 to 2020
• ∙ Drove a 1,300% increase in visits to Techqueria's web properties from 2019 to 2020
• ∙ Awarded Sentry's $10K Open Source Grant to work on the website of Techqueria in 2018
• Key Projects
• ∙ No Tech for ICE policy
• ∙ event platform
• ∙ interim Board Member election
• ∙ LHM Summit
• ∙ logo
• ∙ WordPress website
• ∙ job board
• ∙ Code of Conduct
• ∙ community calendar
• ∙ Slack community standards, onboarding and workflows
• ∙ Town Halls
• ∙ Canny feedback platform
• ∙ Trust & Safety team

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Udacity is where lifelong learners come to learn the skills they need, to land the jobs they want, to build the lives they deserve.
• As a contract curriculum developer at Udacity, I contributed to the new front end nanodegree (FEND) by outlining the initial version of the course material and developing the capstone project along with two lessons.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos · San Francisco, California

• General Assembly transforms careers and teams — including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 — through dynamic courses in coding, data, design, and business.
• As a contract instructor, I taught classes on "Intro to Coding: HTML & CSS" and also taught a free class on "So You Want To Be A Wizard" which provided some insight on what it's like to work in tech.

Jun 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

• Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
• In this role, I worked on a cross-functional team and used my deep understanding of web technologies to improve the Slack.com experience with a key focus on usability, performance, and accessibility.
• Technical Highlights
• ∙ Developed the top 3 pages visited by sales leads creators — Homepage, Contact Sales, and Enterprise
• ∙ Technical lead for a cross-functional team of 5 engineers responsible for the Salesforce & Slack acquisition web updates
• ∙ Mentored my team's first summer engineering intern and received positive feedback from my pillar's director
• ∙ Lead developer and maintainer for the Contact Sales form — the largest driver of lead generation on the web
• ∙ Helped generate 11K+ unique leads, 500K+ visits, a 99.7% success rate, and $85 million+ in pipeline revenue generated (~90% of all marketing pipeline revenue comes from Slack.com, and ~80% of that is from this form) through one year of the contact sales form
• ∙ Influenced $15M in the pipeline and 7.7M web impressions as lead engineer for Reinvent Work campaign
• Leadership
• ∙ Awarded a spot bonus for my leadership work in organizing a team offsite that received a lot of positive feedback on the format and content
• ∙ Recognized with a company award ("Win of the Week") for setting up React training with the creator of React Router for over 30 senior+ engineers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• ∙ Awarded a merit bonus for my leadership work with the Fuego ERG which I co-founded and led during the pandemic
• ∙ Organized 13+ workshops for the Fuego ERG, with active membership increasing by 4x
• ∙ Led one of the largest D&I recruiting events — "Turning Failure Into Fuego" for Earthtones ERG
• ∙ Organized personal branding workshop starring my co-worker Mina Markham for Earthtones ERG

Feb 2018 – May 2018 · 3 mos · Remote

• Thinkful's mission is to help students gain the technical skills necessary to switch careers or advance in their current profession.
• As a web development course mentor at Thinkful, I supported students by acting as a technical mentor as they completed the course and landed their first industry job.

Jun 2017 – May 2018 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• The Liquid Studios are purpose-built to help clients speed up innovation through rapid prototyping & app development to accelerate their next phase of digital transformation.
• Developed and tested hundreds of reusable components using Angular and TypeScript, resulting in increased app modularity
• Communicated 1:1 with stakeholders from large enterprise clients such as Kaiser Permanente and T-Mobile, demonstrating my ability to develop strong working relationships
• Played an integral role in implementing new standards for development and testing, utilizing tools like Karma, Jira, and Sass

Dec 2016 – May 2017 · 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Fullstack Academy's flagship program is a full-time accelerated bootcamp for software engineering.
• I was paid to help market the Summer of Code program and mentor incoming students.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• The Liquid Studios are purpose-built to help clients speed up innovation through rapid prototyping & app development to accelerate their next phase of digital transformation.
• Automated APK installations on wearables through innovative Bash script development, resulting in significant time savings of over 10 hours
• Successfully led the design, development, and testing of AR/VR apps using Unity for enterprise clients
• Developed and launched a mobile-first website utilizing Handlebars to showcase device inventory effectively

Nov 2015 – Feb 2016 · 3 mos · Norfolk City County, Virginia, United States

• 80|20 is a software consulting agency that creates disruptive software & provides consulting for local enterprises & startups.
• Prototyped mobile/web user interfaces for client projects
• Helped develop/design an in-house website creation platform using modern web technologies such as HTML/CSS/JS
• Consulted clients on how to improve their WordPress-based websites
• Gained skills in fullstack web development by working with large-scale web projects