Francisco Gomez is a Seattle-based software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems, AI research prototypes, and full-stack applications across Microsoft, Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, and startups. He blends hands-on backend engineering on Azure Core with applied AI expertise from roles in research and as a Lead AI Engineer, shipping production improvements such as robust token refresh logic to the widely-used Microsoft Bot Framework SDK. Comfortable moving between research and product teams, he has published academic work in robotics and computer vision and repeatedly delivered scalable solutions in both enterprise and startup contexts. Avidly curious and outdoorsy, he brings the same discipline from kayaking and trail running to solving complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student in Computer Science, Exchange Student in Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Salerno
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Universidad de Huelva
Bot Framework provides the most comprehensive experience for building conversation applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 28 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Francisco focused on refactoring and improving the token refresh mechanism within the Bot Framework SDK, modifying both Node.js and C# codebases. Their contributions centered on ensuring access tokens are refreshed before expiration to maintain continuity and address authentication issues. The changes involved time comparisons and the integration of token refresh logic, enhancing the robustness of the SDK. Additionally, they contributed to fixing issues and improving the overall structure of the bot framework's CSharp generator.
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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