# Christopher Francisco > Software Engineer Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/christopherfrancisco Engineering Lead with 10+ years of experience driving front-end excellence at companies like Personio, JPMorgan Chase, and Anaplan. I specialize in building high-performing teams, scaling React ecosystems, and turning technical uncertainty into predictable delivery. I’ve led initiatives that improved engineering velocity by over 80%, reduced production incidents by 30%, and fostered deep collaboration between design, product, and engineering. I’m passionate about technical strategy, mentorship, and building systems that empower teams to move fast with confidence. Always open to connecting with those who share a passion for scalable architecture, design systems, and impactful engineering leadership. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer | L5B @ Personio Jan 2024 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom • Leadership: stabilized team operation by introducing strategies for managing projects with high level of uncertainty, resulting in reduced wasted efforts • Technical: shipped 3 time-constrained large projects with high level of uncertainty • Technical: conducted an analysis of confidence levels in our tribe's codebase and surfaced the results to stakeholders, successfully securing resources in the roadmap, resulting in increased testing coverage ### Senior Lead Frontend Engineer @ JPMorganChase Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom I built and lead high performing team of 4 engineers, achieving the highest metrics for 2 consecutive quarters within our tribe. • Technical: Successfully built a business case for Typescript adoption on the web space, reducing production incidents on NodeJS services by 30% • Leadership: I set the vision and strategy for the team to achieve business OKR of +85% deliverable predictability. ### Software Engineering Manager @ Anaplan Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom I took the manager role to fulfill a vision of increasing engineering development speed through the Design System offerings. I worked with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and content writers. • Technical: designed, built and shipped a React UI library with over 50 components and other support libraries, which increased engineering development speed across the organization in at least 80%, and obtained in a high degree of UX cohesiveness across most Anaplan apps. • Leadership: in 2.5 years achieved an overall 82% adoption of the Design System on both new and existing apps (about 20 apps), with 100% adoption on new apps. Increased collaboration and engagement across multiple engineering teams cross-functionally with product and design from around 3 per week to 3-5 per day. • Cross-functional: Improved design-engineering handover process across the organization by driving changes in Design internal processes, resulting in increased adoption on the Design System to at least 90% on mockup designs (which allowed the aforementioned engineering development speed). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Anaplan Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom After working with Anaplan as a contractor for 3 years, due to my leadership, ownership and impact, Anaplan negotiated with Admios to hire me, offering me a full-time position with sponsorship and relocation to London, UK. I took the role of the engineering architect for the Design System. • Technical: proposed a strategy to help the Design System succeed. Performed an assessment on the state of the frontend apps suite and established a mission and vision that would support the end goal of increasing both engineering speed, and overall UX cohesiveness across the suite of apps. • Leadership: I saw the gap between design and engineering and how it affected productivity. Negotiated buy-in from key engineering leads and product owners and stakeholders to support the Design System initiative, resulting in an active participation from them. I created my own role as the architect of the React UI libraries, and got my own team. ### Senior Software Developer @ Admios Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Panama City, Panamá, Panama Through Admios I worked exclusively for Anaplan (San Francisco, California) as a remote contractor. • Technical: increased "Administration" web app feature development speed at least 3 times faster by introducing reusable component design, and by migrating the old unmaintainable tech stack to CRA + TS with no disruption to feature development. Reduced overall bugs hitting prod by shifting left on QA introducing engineering-owned end to end testing to the team. • Technical: put DocuSign Integration in production after inheriting from a no longer existing contractor team; created documentation and a sustainable feature development process. • Leadership: introduced Anaplan to first prototypes of contract testing and visual regression testing for frontend app development. Mentored teammates into reusable component design mindset. ### Full Stack Developer @ Fundación Ciudad del Saber Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ciudad del Saber, Panamá Joined CoKF to improve reliability on its in-house developed information system. • Technical leadership: improved internal customer satisfaction by greatly reducing system bugs with the introduction unit testing and end to end testing to the development process. Introduced dev/prod environment parity through DevOps tools like Chef and Docker. • Technical: Delivered features and integrations with popular commercial systems such as SAP. ### Software Engineer @ Citric Software Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Co-founded a small software firm as market opportunities presented. • Management: introduced team to Agile methodologies such as XP and Kanban. • Technical: delivered and published mobile apps (iOS native, Android native) and Laravel web app for customer in the “promotions and offers” sector. • Technical: delivered Laravel web app for customer in the “consultant lookup and booking” sector. • Technical: led in-house social network project, delivering and publishing Android mobile app and Laravel web app targeting the “events and general entertainment” sector. ### Full Stack Developer @ Medialink Advertising Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Joined to digitalize their “Like” magazine into an iOS app. • Technical: delivered an iOS native app with offline capabilities and in-app purchases as a digital version of the “Like” magazine. Delivered a Laravel administration web app used by the content teams. ### Android & iOS Developer @ Start Fleet Solutions Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Joined to digitalize their internal business processes through mobile apps. • Technical: delivered an Android (native) app used by logistic operators that would replace paper form and streamline business processes. • Technical: delivered a geographic positioning Android (native app), using GPS for extended periods as an alternative of tracking devices. Careful memory management, socket programming, encryption, and multithreading with delta sync. ### App Developer @ EmagineLab Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Co-founded a small software firm as market opportunities presented. • Technical: delivered 3 projects consisting of Android native apps and an administration backend. • Technical: delivered a mobile Android score-based video game with leaderboard using OpenGL. ## Education ### Engineer's Degree in Computer Systems Engineering Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá ### Bachelor in Science and Letters in General Studies Colegio De La Salle ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/franciscochristopher --- Source: https://flows.cv/christopherfrancisco JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christopherfrancisco/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05