Summary
Francis Blesso is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boston with two decades of consulting experience and nine years focused in product roles, currently leading technical efforts at Google on Local Businesses and LLM content extraction for Google Business Profile. He combines deep architecture and migration expertise—modernizing legacy Java monoliths, introducing Spring, Gradle, and RabbitMQ—with hands-on feature design, code review, and incident debugging as a tech lead. His background spans high-availability deployments, API design for hotels and bookings, and building testing and CI tooling, reflecting a pragmatic balance of strategy and implementation. Known for turning around demoralized teams and reducing technical debt, he has a track record of boosting test coverage and performance while mentoring engineers. A summa cum laude BSME graduate from Tufts, he brings engineering rigor and a measured, systems-thinking approach to complex, large-scale problems.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSME - summa cum laude, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, BSME - summa cum laude, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics at Tufts University