Summary
Francisco Soto is a polyglot staff engineer and tech lead with 15+ years of experience building and shipping reliable systems across B2B, education, finance, health, and ecommerce. He combines deep hands‑on skills—from firmware and low‑level code to backend services and data pipelines—with a track record of leading cross‑team initiatives that measurably improve performance, reliability, and developer velocity. As a founder of two startups and a creator of a SaaS photo gallery platform, he brings practical product sensibility and entrepreneurial grit to engineering leadership. Notable wins include a 10x renderer performance improvement, a production backend optimized for 300% peak throughput gains, and integrations with partners like Meta to unlock platform capabilities. Based in Mexico, he mentors teams while still shipping core infrastructure and tools, preferring pragmatic, testable solutions that reduce operational pain.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B. C. Computer Science, B. C. Computer Science at Universidad de Sonora
English, Spanish