Francisco Piedrahita Velez
Research Fellow at Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Piedrahita Velez is a research-focused computer scientist and Ph.D. student at Brown University with a decade of experience building production ML and backend systems across startups and large platforms. He has led engineering teams at Rappi (routing and forecasting) and held senior software and IT leadership roles, blending hands-on backend development with applied research. At Brown he continues to bridge academic rigor and industry impact, while his open-source work includes backend fixes and tests for the Kinto JSON document store, showing attention to data correctness and auth troubleshooting. A voracious learner, he pairs technical depth in machine learning and distributed systems with broad intellectual interests spanning economics and philosophy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Computer Science Ph.D., Ph.D., Computer Science, Computer Science Ph.D. at Brown UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad EAFIT
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
apim10
api10
python10
back-end-development10
api-design10
postgresql9
storage8
documentation8
testing7
http7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Kinto/kinto
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
A generic JSON document store with sharing and synchronisation capabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily focused on back-end development within the Kinto project, contributing to the core functionality. Their work included implementing bug fixes, specifically addressing incorrect handling of non-string values in a filtering mechanism. They also added tests to validate the fix and refactored code. Furthermore, the user made documentation updates related to troubleshooting authentication issues.
document-storeapisynchronisationjson-documentconflict-resolution
VariaMosORG/SPL-Solver
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 110 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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