Summary
Francisco Saldaña is a Chicago-based Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience delivering scalable, user-focused software across healthcare, consumer, and fintech domains. As Engineering Manager at Headspace, he grew the clinical-operations engineering team from 1 to 7 engineers plus a product manager and enabled mobile self-scheduling while optimizing clinician workload and wait times. He combines hands-on technical leadership with a track record of modernizing architectures—integrating ReactJS into a legacy AngularJS app, building RESTful Django APIs, and standardizing zero-downtime MySQL migrations. He also designed a structured, hierarchical configuration system that lets non-engineer experts tailor the app experience for employer customers and built automated revenue-cycle workflows linking Stripe and DrChrono. Currently at Conduit Tech as a Senior Software Engineer, Francisco brings a hands-on, product-minded approach sharpened by roles at GlossGenius and Headspace, backed by degrees from MIT and DePaul.
11 years of coding experience