Summary
Francisco Dias is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Boston with 12 years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and developer-friendly platforms. He led discovery, search, navigation, and AI product efforts at HubSpot, turning complex cross-team initiatives into reusable delivery platforms and launching a redesigned search UI and navigation system used across the business. Francisco blends design sensibility (BFA in Graphic Design) with deep front-end and product engineering expertise, having contributed core UI libraries, internationalization, and component systems that scaled to millions of users. He mentors engineers into autonomous technical leads and has a track record of shifting teams from infrastructure-first to product-first mindsets. Now at Nex.ai he’s focused on making data genuinely useful by helping engineering teams prioritize what matters most. An early career background in digital design and teaching gives him a rare mix of communication, pedagogy, and pragmatic engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Graphic Design at Northeastern University
Portuguese, English