Juan Franco is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience delivering polished, pixel-perfect web interfaces. He is currently at Box in Sunnyvale, California, where since 2018 he has helped evolve the Box UI Elements design system, focusing on frontend components like pill-selector, UX refinements, and security-conscious UI details. His background includes roles at Ooyala and other tech firms, spanning web applications and front-end engineering, giving him a strong product-first mindset and fluency in modern web stacks. As an active contributor to Box's open-source React components, he has implemented features such as scroll boundary selection, renamed input parsers, and UI updates to the classification badge. He earned a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Computer Science Engineering from Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey, grounding his practical, scalable frontend work in solid fundamentals. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends design-systems thinking with hands-on delivery to ship cohesive, usable software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor鈥檚 Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor鈥檚 Degree, Computer Science Engineering at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 55 reviews, 48 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on enhancing and refining the `pill-selector` component within the `box-ui-elements` repository. Their contributions involved UX tweaks for various use cases, addressing code review feedback, and resolving flow issues. They also implemented features such as the addition of scroll boundary selection and the renaming of the default input parser. Furthermore, the user made changes to the `classification` badge, including UI adjustments, icon restoration, and integration with security controls, enhancing the visual and functional aspects of the component.
Contributions:154 releases, 582 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 7 months
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