<p style="text-align: justify">[[File:F_MEJIAFMejia.jpg|thumb|180x320px|F_MEJIA.jpg]] <b>Francisco is Matteo Mejía Antezano</b> <b>University:</b> Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC). Lima, Perú <b>UIF since:</b> Fall 2018 <b>What he does now:</b> He currently works as the CTO of the startup CreaCode and as a University Innovation Fellow Product Engineer at his university's accelerator, UTEC Ventures. <b>What that means:</b> He codes all day, every day. <b>Contact him about:</b> Project and career opportunities for students. Web Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, building your own startup, incubation/acceleration programs, the startup ecosystem in Latin America, raising awareness of I&E in students, soccer, Perú, and much more. <b>Email:</b> fmejiaantezano@gmail.com <b>Phone:</b> +51 986 552 073 Francisco is currently pursuing a Computer Science student degree at UTEC (Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología) in Lima, Perú. As Being a CS fourth year student in his sixth semesterCS, Francisco is proficient in programming, discrete math and other CS skillsspecifically when it comes to web apps. In campus As an UTEC student, he Francisco is a member part of Spin OutSpinOut, the an I&E community at student organization founded by UTEC's first UIF cohort, which focuses in creating awareness about innovation and entrepreneurship trough regular events and workshops about methodologies like Design Thinking and SITwhere he serves as a tech mentor for the different projects that are organized every year. Outside of campus, Francisco is a trainee at two regional startups: CreaCode and Silabuz.com's work impacts not only UTEC, both but also other branches of which offer coding courses for kids and teensSpinOut that exist in other universities in Lima an other cities from the region. Also in UTEC, where Francisco works as a teacher the Product Engineer of UTEC Ventures, which is UTEC's startup accelerator and incubator. Francisco sees this position as a mentor. He considers his Jesuit education to be an important part extension of his personawork at SpinOut, and because it allows him to build projects that can impact the same kind of that he people, while also allowing him to experience the day to day of the tech industry. Outside of UTEC, Francisco is very interested in the socioeconomical issues CTO of CreaCode, an edtech startup that gives coding classes to kids and teens, offering paid workshops that affect his countryhelp fund their volunteering branch, which aimed at young girls from low income areas. Francisco's job is the reason he chose to work as a teacher to reduce develop and maintain the technological gap between public different web projects that they have, and private schools and promote computational thinkingalso ensure the quality of the curriculum. When he learned about the UIF programFrancisco doesn't plan to leave CreaCode any time soon, as he saw the opportunity believes this job is very closely related to become a true agent of change his mission in his communitylife. He believes being As a University Innovation Fellow is the perfect additive , most of Francisco's contribution to his education local ecosystem comes through his participation in SpinOut UTEC and it will allow UTEC Ventures. This allows him to develop greater projects collaborate with other universities and local startups to incentivize students to improve not only UTECpursue entrepreneurial opportunities. In his spare time, but the other communities Francisco loves playing soccer (he belongs towas part of his secondary school's soccer team). He also likes playing videogames and is always improving his skills developing them.</p>
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