Making the Reconbots for Intel at Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

Francis is [Bocoup's](http://stage1.bocoup.com) Director of Web connected devices. His team of experts specialize in advising IoT and Electronics companies, building tools, and solving problems quickly using open source software.

He brings the joy he takes from his work into bringing the advances we've had in the software world to the hardware world. Enabling ease of use for prototyping and education, rapid development cycles for bringing products to market, and security and stability because good products last a long time.

Before joining Bocoup, Francis ran his own agency consulting for Small and Medium sized businesses, Education, and Startups. He's served as VP of Engineering and CTO for startups in NYC, and managed a global network operation center in finance.

He's a contributor to the open source projects [serialport](https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport) and [Johnny-Five](http://johnny-five.io). Both in the top 2% of all NPM packages. He also helped start the [Nodebots](http://nodebots.io) community, which runs workshops building JavaScript powered hardware across the globe. 

If you're in New York City, you can meet Francis at one of his [NodeBots NYC](http://nodebots.nyc) events or workshops.