Francisco Bernal
Senior Software Engineer - Flutter at Headspace
Clovis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Bernal is a Senior Software Engineer and mobile leader with over a decade of experience shipping production iOS, Android, and Flutter products, now building AI-enhanced mental health companions at Headspace. He led Mattel’s native-to-Flutter migration, cutting development time by 50% and delivering reusable plugins and SDKs that standardized BLE, MQTT, and NFC integrations across product lines. Francisco couples hands-on native expertise (Swift, Obj‑C, Java, Kotlin) with Flutter/Dart mastery and a proven track record in ML—he architected a doodle-recognition model used in a Pictionary vs. AI app with ~80% accuracy. He’s an active open-source contributor, adding iOS support for Google ML Kit features to a popular Flutter plugin, and he emphasizes developer productivity through core libraries and clear documentation. Based in Clovis, CA, he blends systems-level engineering with product-focused leadership and a knack for turning hardware-constrained use cases into elegant mobile experiences.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of MexicoBrigham Young University-Idaho
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
swift10
ios10
objective-c10
flutter-plugin10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
flutter-ml/google_ml_kit_flutter
May 2021 - Jan 2023
A flutter plugin that implements Google's standalone ML Kit
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:211 reviews, 74 commits, 240 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Francisco implemented the iOS-specific components for the Google ML Kit Flutter plugin. The contributions included adding face detection, barcode scanning, text recognition, and digital ink recognition features to the iOS part of the plugin, which involved creating Objective-C classes to interface with the native ML Kit libraries. Moreover, the changes encompassed adding supporting classes for handling different types of barcode data and adding functionality for managing Firebase models. Furthermore, modifications were made to the example app to showcase the newly added functionalities.
dartstandaloneflutter-pluginml-kitflutter
fbernaly/esp-fun
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 29 branches in 4 years 5 months
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