Francisco Valdes
Staff Engineer at Scopely
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Valdes is a Staff Backend Engineer with 14 years’ experience building high-performance server infrastructure for one of the world’s top-grossing mobile games. He operates at extreme scale—supporting tens of millions of daily players and peaks of over 2M writes/sec—while driving platform-level improvements that cut environment provisioning from weeks to minutes. Originally a client-side and full-stack developer, Francisco leverages that dual perspective to design backends that solve real product and operational needs, not just neat APIs. He’s led migrations to Kubernetes, introduced caching and cost-saving optimizations, and repeatedly played central roles in incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term prevention. A hands-on mentor and interviewer, he has shaped hiring and engineering culture through dozens of hires and direct coaching. Lately he’s focused on AI-powered automation and agentic systems to reduce toil and make knowledge truly portable across teams.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. in Software Engineering Software Engineering, MSc. in Software Engineering Software Engineering at Universidade da CoruñaComputer Science, Computer Science at Panepistimio Kyprou
Spanish, English, Galician
Github Skills (42)
owin8
tracks7
mono6
http-server5
asp-net5
rethinkdb5
dotnet5
addin5
net-library4
csharp4
laravel-blade4
templating-engine4
xamarin-forms3
php3
database3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
squidge/bot.js
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
squidge/webapi
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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