Fran Dios
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolFran Dios is a Staff Software Engineer based in Chiyoda, Japan with 12 years of experience building fast, developer-friendly front-end systems and developer tooling. Currently at Shopify, Fran has driven client-side improvements for the Hydrogen storefront framework and contributed to Vite and vite-ssr projects—demonstrating deep expertise in SSR, React/Vue integration, and build-time/plugin workflows. Previously a CTO and lead developer, he blends leadership with hands-on refactors, developer experience improvements, and documentation work across projects like Onsen UI. Multilingual academic roots across Finland, Spain, and a Vulcanus program in Japan underpin a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to engineering and open-source collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of TurkuComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidad de GranadaInformation Technology, Information Technology at Vulcanus in Japan 2014-2015Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Åbo Akademi
Spanish, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (33)
ss10
javascript10
css10
server-side-rendering10
typescript10
vite10
render10
server-rendering10
remix10
front-end-development10
vue10
typescript-types10
html10
css-modules10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/hydrogen
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Hydrogen lets you build faster headless storefronts in less time, on Shopify.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:475 reviews, 566 commits, 445 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Fran primarily contributed to the development of the Hydrogen storefront, focusing on implementing and modifying front-end features. Their commits included the creation of a sitemap.xml file, adding a journal page and its associated components, and adding pages routes. The user's work also involved modifying the display of product and collection data and addressing hydration mismatches.
shopifyhydrogenreactremix
frandiox/vite-ssr
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Use Vite for server side rendering in Node
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 12 reviews, 383 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Fran primarily focused on developing and refactoring the frontend of a Vite-based server-side rendering (SSR) application. They implemented features such as component exclusion for SSR, support for React and Vue features (e.g., Apollo Renderer and Vueuse/head), and integration with React Router 6. The user also worked on setting up a development server.
server-side-renderingvitessrcloudflareworker
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