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AI Is Fertilizer. Now We Have to Learn to Prune. 🌳
Agents are growing our codebases faster than we can maintain them. Orchard engineering pairs every growth loop with a pruning loop so code stays healthy at agent scale.
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Hi, I'm Frances! 👋🏽
Senior Software Engineer @ Slack
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Tidepool Day: Slack x Anthropic Bring Out 350+ People for a Day of AI Tooling 🌊
Slack and Anthropic teamed up for a full day of keynotes, workshops, and lightning talks on AI tooling at Salesforce Tower, including giving two of our interns the mic.
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Speaking at the Latino AI Summit: Making AI Tools Work for Everyone 🎤
Spoke at the Latino AI Summit on making AI tools accessible to everyone (no ML background required, just curiosity) and opened up free tickets for my network.
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AI Engineer Conference 2026: 10/10, No Notes 🥇
A week of conversations with Elastic, Warp, PlanetScale, OpenAI, Sentry, LangChain, and Together AI about observability and agentic lifecycle tooling, and how much of it runs through Slack.
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Experience 💼
Mar 2026 – Present
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic SDLC
Part of the Agentic SDLC team within Slack DevXP, focused on transforming how software gets built by integrating AI agents across the entire software development lifecycle, from idea to production. Agentic SDLC → DevXP → Dev & Data → Slack → Salesforce.
Jun 2025 – Feb 2026
Senior Software Engineer, Messaging
Currently on the Sidebar Systems team, focused on building the best in class messaging platform for getting work done. Sidebar Systems → Messaging → Slack Core Experience → Slack → Salesforce.
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
Engineering Manager, Lists
Explored the Engineering Manager path at Slack, leading a team of three engineers on the Lists team under the Productivity pillar.
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