<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 Product Engineer at CreaCodehis university's accelerator, a startup that gives coding classes in PerúUTEC Ventures.
<b>What that means:</b> He is in charge of maintaining and improving their tech projects (e-commercecodes all day, LMS, and more), as well as supervising the use of different services to guarantee the quality of online classesevery 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> francisco.mejiafmejiaantezano@utec.edugmail.pecom
<b>Phone:</b> +51 986 552 073
Francisco is currently pursuing a Computer Science degree at UTEC in Lima, Perú. Being a fourth year student in CS, Francisco is profficient proficient in programming, specifically in when it comes to web development and data structuresapps.
As an UTEC student, Francisco is part of SpinOut, an I&E student organization founded by UTEC's first UIF cohort, where he serves as a tech mentor for the different projects that are organized every year. As part of this position he also helps UTECFrancisco's accelerator, work impacts not only UTEC Ventures, but also other branches of SpinOut that exist in having more impact on UTEC's students through different events to promote entrepreneurshipother universities in Lima an other cities from the region.
Outside of Also in UTEC, Francisco is works as the CTO Product Engineer of CreaCodeUTEC Ventures, an edtech which is UTEC's startup that gives coding classes to kids accelerator and teens, offering paid workshops that help fund their voluntary branch, aimed at young girls of low income areasincubator. Francisco job is sees this position as an extension of his work at SpinOut, because it allows him to develop and maintain the different web build projects that they havecan impact the same kind of people, and while also ensure allowing him to experience the quality day to day of the current online classes, which were implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemictech industry.
Outside of UTEC, Francisco is the CTO of CreaCode, an edtech startup that gives coding classes to kids and teens, offering paid workshops that help fund their volunteering branch, aimed at young girls from low income areas. Francisco's job is to develop and maintain the different web projects that they have, and also ensure the quality of the curriculum. Francisco doesn't plan to leave CreaCode any time soon, as he believes this job is very closely related to his mission in life. As a University Innovation Fellow, most of Francisco's contribution to his local ecosystem comes through his participation in SpinOut UTEC and their relationship with UTEC Ventures. This allows him to collaborate with other universities and local startups to incentivize students to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.
In his spare time, Francisco loves playing soccer (he was part of his secondary school's soccer team). He also likes playing videogames and is always improving his skills developing them.