Francisco Borges
Software Architect at Salesforce
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrancisco Borges is a Software Architect with 14 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently improving search quality at Salesforce by balancing precision and recall without regressions. He previously led engineering work on enterprise messaging at Red Hat (HornetQ) and on enterprise search and indexing at EMC, where he helped ship xPlore and contributed to patentable indexing innovations. With a PhD in Computational Linguistics and a background in stochastic modeling and molecular sciences, he blends deep algorithmic expertise with practical systems engineering. An active open-source contributor, his HornetQ commits focused on hardening concurrency, replication, and journal reliability—work that reflects a preference for robustness and maintainability in backend systems.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, mathematical physics, stochastic modeling, MSc, mathematical physics, stochastic modeling at USP - Universidade de São PauloDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics at University of Groningen
English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
messaging10
testing10
java10
javas10
hornetq10
concurrency10
linux9
journaling9
zsh9
jenkins6
autosuggest6
shell6
command-line6
seq6
zsh-completion6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hornetq/hornetq
Mar 2012 - Aug 2013
HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:254 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the HornetQ messaging system. Their contributions included fixing potential deadlocks, correcting test logic, and removing unnecessary null checks to enhance code quality. They also addressed issues related to replication and journal management, specifically handling replication tokens and server shutdown procedures, and refactored code to use abstract data types. Several commits were focused on cleaning up and simplifying code, which improved overall maintainability of the codebase.
asynchronoushornetq
FranciscoBorges/openwrt-printing-packages
Feb 2013 - Jan 2015
Printing packages for OpenWrt
Contributions:77 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years
openwrt
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