Francis Avila
Staff Software Engineer at Nubank
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolFrancis Avila is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience in Clojure and Datomic and more than 15 years of web development. He blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership, notably at Shortcut where he optimized a multi-billion-datom Datomic database, cutting storage costs and improving peer query latency while steering GraphQL-server migrations. He currently contributes to Nubank's Datomic core team, shaping scalable backends for a leading fintech platform. An active open-source contributor, he helped advance the ClojureScript compiler and co-authored the introductory book Clojure In Action. His academic path spans philosophy, classics, and theology, offering a rigorous, thoughtful approach to system design. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, he brings a rare cross-domain perspective from healthcare to fintech and a passion for building robust data-driven applications.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Christendom CollegeTheology, Theology at Washington Theological UnionSTB, Theology, STB, Theology at Dominican House of Studies
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Github Skills (48)
python10
mysql10
parallel-processing10
php10
compiler-design10
xml10
multiprocessing10
functional-programming10
pdo10
clojurescript10
html-entities9
utf-89
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
clojure/clojurescript
Jan 2014 - Jun 2017
Clojure to JS compiler
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Francis primarily contributed to the ClojureScript compiler, focusing on bug fixes and improvements to core functionality. They addressed issues related to type checking, vector operations, and reader behavior, ensuring the correct parsing of numeric literals and handling of edge cases. The contributions involved modifications to core source files and test suites. They also worked on optimizing code generation and resolving issues related to string manipulation.
compilerclojureclojurescript
Breezeemr/quiescent
Feb 2014 - Jun 2019
A lightweight ClojureScript abstraction over ReactJS
Contributions:65 commits, 25 pushes, 4 tags in 5 years 4 months
reactclojurescriptreactjsclojureabstraction
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