Francis Mitra
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Mitra is a Senior Software Engineer and former founder with 11 years of experience building product-focused, scalable systems across fintech, e‑commerce, and consumer services. Now at Uber in New York, he brings full‑stack expertise in Go, Python, and JavaScript and a track record of delivering mission‑critical financial services that scaled millions of monthly transactions and grew activated users 4x. He previously led product and platform transitions at Warby Parker, co‑founded a seed‑backed startup in Southeast Asia, and exited a Manila startup via acquisition—experience that sharpens his product validation and investor communication instincts. Comfortable both validating market fit and shipping production systems, he blends entrepreneurial grit with engineering rigor and has a knack for turning operational needs into internal tooling and microservices. An MIT New Ventures Leadership alum, he often juggles creative and technical ventures, hiring and managing distributed teams across APAC.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at St. John's UniversityNew Ventures Leadership, New Ventures Leadership at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJoyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI)
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (16)
uploads9
authentication7
security6
django6
webauthn5
python5
aws5
passwordless5
aws-s34
golang4
go2
rest-framework1
django-rest1
django-admin1
rest1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fmitra/dennis-bot
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
A pet project to learn Go, Dennis is Telegram bot to manage expense tracking
Contributions:23 PRs, 82 pushes, 28 branches in 8 months
golangtelegram-botdennisexpensebot
fmitra/authenticator
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:138 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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