I'm Francisco Zenteno Smith. I transform legacy systems into production-grade decision-support software — bridging operations research rigor with software engineering discipline.

With a decade of experience applying operations research across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and aviation, I bridge two disciplines that are too often kept separate: mathematical optimization and software engineering.
At American Airlines, I build large-scale optimization systems that power flight operations — designed and shipped with the same engineering rigor as any production software, not treated as one-off research code.
I hold dual master's degrees in Computer Science (UC San Diego) and Industrial Engineering (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), and created SEFOP, an open-source framework for bringing software-engineering discipline to optimization programs. In 2026, I spoke at the Agentic Quality Summit in Atlanta on bridging operations research and production-grade engineering.
A framework for building optimization systems the way you'd build any production software: Clean Architecture, dependency injection, full test coverage, and CI/CD — not throwaway research scripts. Includes reference implementations across languages and a live, deployed demo.
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