Summary
Francisco Esteves is a backend-focused solutions engineer with 8 years of experience building production systems across robotics, embedded hardware, and fintech environments, now based in Dubai. He blends hands-on engineering (C++, C, Go, Python, shell) and hardware design with customer-facing technical leadership, guiding enterprise integrations and documentation for protocols like SOCKET and Bungee. Francisco has led customer success and pre-sales teams, translating customer needs into product requirements and playbooks while personally owning high-speed PCB design and safety certification efforts. Comfortable across the stack, he’s worked on safety-critical space projects, global hardware certification, and enterprise banking backends—demonstrating uncommon breadth from board bring-up to API onboarding. Outside of work he’s a married guy exploring projects with his dog, signaling a pragmatic, curious approach to tinkering and learning.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Planalto
Escola Secundária Aquilino Ribeiro
JavaScript Fundamentals, JavaScript Fundamentals at Alchemy University
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish