Francisco Vélez
Senior Software Engineer at Claro Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
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Top SchoolFrancisco Vélez is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping web and mobile applications across finance, government, and enterprise clients from Santo Domingo. He specializes in Vue/Nuxt and Flutter-driven front-ends, APIs and integrations (REST/SOAP), and has a track record of measurable impact—speeding response times by 90% and boosting user engagement and client acquisition in multiple projects. A pragmatic believer in SOLID principles, he moves legacy systems toward modern, maintainable architectures while delivering UX-focused features like video galleries and multi-file upload flows. Francisco is also an active open-source contributor, expanding language and theme support for the popular Shiki syntax highlighter, showing attention to developer experience beyond product code.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Computer Engineering, Computer Engineer Computer Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago UTESATechnician - Professional (Computing), Technician - Professional (Computing) at Instituto Politécnico Parroquial Santa Ana (IPOPSA)
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (7)
syntax-highlighting10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript8
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shikijs/shiki
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily contributed to adding syntax highlighting samples for various programming languages to the shiki project. Their work involved modifying the `languages.ts`, `scripts/grammarSources.ts`, and `scripts/themeSources.ts` files to incorporate new language definitions, sample files, and theme configurations. The contributions focused on expanding the project's language support for syntax highlighting across multiple file types.
highlightvimsyntax-highlightervscodevscode-extension
Jadhielv/create-pull-request
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
`create-pull-request` is a CLI that lets you open the URL to create a pull request pointing to the base branch in Github.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years
requestpull-requestcreate-pull-requestcli
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