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Code with Claude 🤖
Four takeaways from Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco — rapid growth, context switching as a superpower, customization gaps, and Slack-native AI workflows.
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Hi, I'm Frances! 👋🏽
Senior Software Engineer @ Slack
Speaker & Mentor
Proud Peruvian-American
Corgi Mom to Luna & Sueño
Latinos 40 Under 40, SF/Silicon Valley
Blog
Latest Posts ✍🏽
Speaking for Stanford SOLE 🎓
Spoke at Stanford's Society of Latinx Engineers about breaking into industry, early career decisions, and AI tooling — one of those Q&As where you can tell people are genuinely curious.
Speaking
Presenting to Salesforce Futureforce Interns 🌟
Presented on AI tooling and the agentic future alongside Ashwin Goel for Salesforce's Futureforce intern cohort — sharing how Slack and Salesforce are building for what comes next.
Speaking
Featured: How to Do AI-Assisted Engineering in the Enterprise ✍🏽
Contributed to Gregor Ojstersek's Engineering Leadership newsletter — one of 15 engineers sharing how we're actually using AI in our day-to-day workflows.
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Career
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.
Education
Degrees 🎓
Master of Engineering in Computer Science
Cornell Tech
Aug 2016 – May 2017
Led development at Cornell Tech with NY Times on commenter diversity. Built Mora startup. Excelled in CS topics. Simons Fellow.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Hampton University
Jan 2014 – May 2016
Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Full-ride merit scholarship. Top GPA in computer science department. Dean's List. Awarded multiple conference scholarships.
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Impact at a Glance 📊
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