Francis Avila
Staff Software Engineer at Nubank
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolFrancis Avila is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of professional experience and more than a decade working deeply with Clojure and Datomic, currently contributing to Datomic core at Nubank. He has led large-scale Datomic remediation and performance projects at Shortcut—reducing a 16-billion-datom dataset below 10 billion with measurable cost and latency improvements—and built import and server-side GraphQL architectures to support large customers. An author of the intro Clojure book "Clojure In Action" and an active contributor to the ClojureScript compiler, he blends production-grade systems work with open-source contributions that touch core language tooling. His background in philosophy, classics, and theology gives him a habit of rigorous, pattern-oriented thinking that surfaces in elegant data and query abstractions. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, he brings experience across real-time collaborative systems, rule engines, and both startup- and product-scale engineering challenges.
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 (46)
python10
mysql10
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php10
compiler-design10
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functional-programming10
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clojurescript10
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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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