Francisco Trindade
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Braze
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Trindade is a seasoned engineering leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling product teams across startups and large enterprises, currently serving as Vice President of Software Engineering at Braze in New York. He brings a rare combination of hands-on full-stack development—evidenced by contributions to open-source projects like the Apache Fineract-based openMF community app—and strategic leadership from roles as founder/CTO and senior director-level positions. A former ThoughtWorks consultant, he has coached and transformed engineering practices globally, from UK startups to Australian enterprises. Francisco excels at aligning cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, user-focused systems while preserving an operator’s curiosity—he often blends product thinking with engineering pragmatism drawn from founding companies and shipping production software.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Microelectronics, Computer Engineer Microelectronics at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Italian, English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
133reputation
18kreached
6answers
3questions
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
angularjs10
html10
unit-testing9
rbac9
role-based-access-control9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
fest7
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openMF/community-app
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
This was the former default web application built on top of the Apache Fineract platform. It's now deprecated and replaced by the the Mifos X Web App (https://github.com/openMF/web-app maintained by the Mifos Initiative as a reference solution for financial inclusion. It is a Single-Page App (SPA) written in web standard technologies.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Francisco contributed to the front-end and back-end development of the web application. They implemented new features, including a "Manage Roles" menu item and associated routes, and integrated a roles list page. The commits also involved creating a role model and unit tests, as well as updating the testing configuration. They also worked on UI elements and routes for home and admin pages.
financial-inclusionweb-applicationbootstrap-5html5javascript-css
yourgrocer/spree_quick_cart
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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