Francisco Lobos

About Francisco Lobos

Senior Software Engineer (iOS) with 10+ years of experience building scalable mobile systems and high-impact product features used by millions. Currently at Meta (WhatsApp), working on SMB and monetization platforms.I specialize in owning ambiguous problems end-to-end—from defining technical direction to delivering production systems. My work has focused on improving system reliability, performance, and engineering velocity, including building internal testing infrastructure (11% → 78% adoption), optimizing client-server interactions, and scaling catalog systems used by tens of thousands of businesses.Previously Technical Lead at Evernote, where I led a team of 8 engineers across mobile and web platforms, driving cross-platform architecture and delivering features used by millions.Interested in building high-quality products at scale.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Meta

   Oct 2022 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US

   Owned and delivered a business-critical messaging system for SMB monetization across priority markets, driving +20% improvement in key metrics- Identified and closed a major testing gap by designing and launching a GraphQL mocking framework for authenticated flows; authored RFC and drove adoption across 3 teams, increasing test reliability from 11% to 78%- Led end-to-end development of a media platform for merchant catalogs (video upload, playback, gallery integration), enabling 2M+ uploads and improving engagement- Improved system efficiency at scale by redesigning caching strategy, reducing backend load by 66% and optimizing client performance- Drove migration from legacy backend systems to GraphQL, simplifying data flows and improving maintainability- Diagnosed and resolved critical stability issues (SIGSEGV) by addressing threading problems, significantly improving app reliability.

Education

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  Ingeniero Civil, en ciencias de la Computación (Informática, Software, Sistemas de Información)

  2006 — 2012

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  Licentiate degree, Computer Science

  2006 — 2012

Skills

• Desarrollo De Software
• Ionic Framework
• Html
• Programación
• Social Skills
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Socket.io
• Computer Science
• Javascript
• Microsoft Word
• C#
• Estrategia Empresarial
• Java
• Microsoft Office
• Php
• Spanish
• Ruby on Rails
• Typescript
• Node.js
• Mongodb
• Strategic Planning
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint