Frances Morales
Open Source Developer at Open Source Software
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorFrances Morales is an experienced open source developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12+ years building reliable software and QA infrastructure across startups and established tech firms. Her background blends hands-on engineering and quality assurance—from early QA roles at MySpace and Microsoft contracts to architecting QA infrastructure and software engineering work at Oblong, Telescope, and Hippo Insurance. Frances focuses on community safety and adversarial behavior in open projects, actively inviting conversations about how bad actors make communities unsafe and why they’re hard to find. She brings a pragmatic systems mindset informed by long-term open source involvement and a track record of scaling testing and reliability practices. Notably, her career spans both low-level network and operations roles in the 1990s and modern cloud-native QA patterns, giving her a rare cross-era perspective on platform resilience. Though not open to recruiting, she remains an engaged community voice and collaborator on security and moderation challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (50)
chat7
eve-online7
eve7
api6
intellij-plugin6
webstorm6
rubymine6
linux6
signal6
messenger6
readable5
macos5
pycharm5
appcode5
rspec5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RubySandbox/HowToGuard
Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
RubySandbox/HowToSetUpYourDevelopmentEnvironment
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years
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