Francisco G.

About Me

Francisco is a seasoned Senior Mobile Application developer with 10+ years of experience developing iOS applications for clients. He delivers top-notch solutions on projects for clients by using his strong technical skills and business-oriented approach to ensure project success. He provides technical expertise for AI, data mining, pattern recognition, evolutionary programming, and Scientific research.

AI, ML & LLM

Frontend

Backend

Database

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior iOS Developer
2019 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

Highside
Highside
Lead iOS Engineer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
La Plata, Argentina (Remote)
  • Offered production expertise for the management and development new solutions; handling product lifecycle tasks and deployment to the App Store.

  • Efficiently assessed and fixed all underlying performance and concurrency issues in the iOS application; closing more than 300 technical issues in 7 months.

  • Provided guidance for the implementation of the appropriate product and business trade-offs; leading to measurable product and business outcomes on projects.

Despegar
Despegar
Lead iOS Engineer
2016 - 2018 (2 years)
La Plata, Argentina
  • Provided technical leadership to the iOS team for the development of a native iOS App for Despegar's shopping workflow on different products for flights, hotels, cars, and packages.

  • Successfully managed the development and product lifecycle of the app, estimated new features, refactored existing and legacy parts of the application, and oversaw deployment to the App Store.

  • Provided technical guidance, mentorship, and assistance to the development team to work on a backlog of stories and deliver products efficiently for Despegar.

Globant
Globant
iOS Technical Lead
2013 - 2016 (3 years)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Efficiently managed a Team of 11 developers to provide offsite and on-site services for the mobile division of an important Financial and Banking company.

  • Acted as the first part-time technical lead in Globant’s history; refactoring 800,000 LoCs for a mortgage inspection app for iPads.

  • Developed, introduced and managed SDKs as a vital resource for different iOS teams within Globant, and as tools used on projects to work separately from different repositories.

PixelPublishers
Founder
2012 - 2014 (2 years)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Regularly provided production expertise for the development of CMS, REST Services, and the integrations with StoreKit to support in-app purchases on different projects.

  • Efficiently delivered 6+ apps featuring Grimm Fables, Bible Tales, etc. for clients with thousands of downloads by customers.

  • Engineered a tool to enable the reuse of a PDF reader platform to support StoreKit in-app purchases.

Green Star Digital Ltd
Lead iOS Developer
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Remote)
  • Developed and maintained a PDF reader platform for iPads on iOS 4 to match iBooks performance for the client.

  • Built and delivered new product features for caching large document thumbnails, highlighting, parsing links and overlaying videos.

  • Efficiently led all improvements on the engineering processes and tools for development within the company.

Universidad de Palermo
Universidad de Palermo
Soft Computing / AI Research Coordinator
2010 - 2013 (3 years)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Led and coordinated three Soft computing research projects: SIR (Real-Time Case-Based Reasoning system for reusable robots), JAZZ (Opinion Mining) and GDARIM (Web Mining).

  • Successfully published various papers on peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

  • Offered technical expertise that helped the lab raise the headcount of research fellows by leading many projects.

Freelance
Freelance
Software Developer
2010 - Present (15 years)
Argentina (Remote)
  • Regularly provide technical expertise for different software development services to independent professionals and businesses.

  • Worked on the BuenOjo Learning platform for ciefap.org to teach interns to properly classify satellite images of vast patagonian forests.

  • Developed the main feature for a quick voice messaging application for iOS and worked on the performance of improvements for the NBC Finder app on iPhone 3.0.

Gameloft
Gameloft
Java MicroEdition Retroporting Specialist
2008 - 2008
Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Offered production expertise for the porting of games into low-end cell phones.

  • Provided technical services for the spotting and debugging of the proguard obfuscation bug that jeopardized Golden Master releases of several retro ports.

  • Successfully implemented a grid system to port non touch games to touchscreen cell phones for Gameloft.

Showcase

Lead iOS Developer - Despegar/Decolar
Lead iOS Developer - Despegar/Decolar
  • Developed and maintained iOS applications for a leading travel app in Latin America.

  • Assisted in migrating and modernizing the app's infrastructure, improving performance and reliability.

  • Worked on a high-volume, user-facing application with over 10 million users.

iOS Developer/Consultant - Quikey
iOS Developer/Consultant - Quikey
  • Developed an easy-to-use `UITableView` subclass with swipeable buttons.

  • Directed the development team to implement the swiping tableview solution.

  • Enhanced an open-source project to meet app needs.

Freelance iOS Developer/Consultant - Diario Diez
Freelance iOS Developer/Consultant - Diario Diez
  • Diario Diez provides news coverage for the National League, National Team of Honduras, legionaries, international football, and team results.

  • The app utilizes a tiling scroll view solution, developed as part of a Github UI Kit, to manage a reusable scroll view of subviews.

  • The solution aims to implement a iOS UIScrollView subclass that manages a grid of tiles.

Education

Education
Harvard Leadership Tools
Harvard Business
2018 - 2018
Education
Research Methodology
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2012 - 2012
Education
Data Mining with Weka
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2011 - 2011
Education
Master’s Degree in Software Engineering (Candidate)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
2011 - Present (14 years)
Education
Bs. Degree in Informatics
Universidad de Palermo (Argentina)
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Education
Linux Administrator
Linux College, Argentina
2004 - 2004