Aaron Franco
Platform Engineering & SysOps Leader
7.1
Years of Experience
Education
japanese self taught, binghamton university
Companies
brightwheel, crossborder solutions, crossborder solutions, amazon, amazon, scaling hope, crypto working group, rocketship apps, nimblechat, cheapoair, nimblestack, click slide
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Experience
2022 - Present
brightwheel
Platform Engineering & SysOps Leadership
Leading platform engineering & systems operations efforts at Brightwheel.
2022 - 2022
crossborder solutions
Vice President Of Engineering
2021 - 2022
crossborder solutions
Vice President Of Development
2019 - 2021
amazon
Senior Solutions Architect
2018 - 2019
amazon
Solutions Architect
2017 - 2021
scaling hope
Community Leader
A community organization that matches technologists with computer science after-school programs. Our mission is to help young people understand their full potential as technologists. We aim to focus primarily on low-income and under privileged communities. Please get in touch if you would like to help or partner with our community!
2017 - 2018
crypto working group
Founding Member - Management
Working group for crypto-currency investments, ICOs and regulation. - Leading the group in project management process & organization - Managing new member out reach and sponsor communications - Assisting other group leaders and founding members in community growth and process management.
2017 - 2017
rocketship apps
Director Of Engineering / Lead Architect
- Provided hands-on leadership to a team leads of multiple teams working on multiple products - Transformed communication into a smooth data-driven team of engineers and executives. - Defining future product and technology road map for maximum scaling at minimum cost. - Helping executives understand how their platforms will react at scale, identifying when and where they start to see bottlenecks. - Architect solutions to technical problems using AWS Cloud technology, JavaScript, serverless and Ruby
2016 - 2017
nimblechat
Principal Engineer & Architect
Food delivery over Facebook Messenger! http://m.me/nimblechat - Bootstrapped recruitment by forming strategic partnerships with local code academies to bring on junior engineers. - Effectively executed with a team of 5 junior developers to successfully deliver products despite the team's lack of experience. - Pioneering a Chatbot platform with the team consisting of a real-time streaming backend, a real-time chat dashboard, a chat client, and 3 chatbots deployed to Facebook Messenger. - Reducing time to market by creating API partnerships - Architect solutions for near-real-time Natural Language processing using AWS Cloud and Google Dialog Flow with Node.js and React.js
2016 - 2016
cheapoair
Principal Architect : AI chatbot
Built a proof of concept of a chatbot on Facebook Messenger for Fareportal/CheapOair. - Streamlined communication and development of 2 engineering teams, while ensuring C-Level executives had clear understanding of technical road-map. - Managed collaboration between client's senior architects and the output of our junior devs. - Managed cultural barriers with high-touch persistent communication - Wrote NodeJS Code and deployed systems to AWS Cloud as well as IBM Bluemix Cloud
2015 - 2017
nimblestack
CTO & Principal Architect
Nimblestack Inc. is an executive consulting firm providing technical management services from hands-on development to technical recruitment in high growth companies. - Leader of all things technical - Decreasing time to market for customer’s web and mobile applications by designing an agile process for their engineering teams and managing executive communications. - Reducing new developer on-boarding time by months using process based development architecture. - Clarify complex technical ideas and implementations for all stake holders and investors. - Identified and recruited top junior engineering talent through hackathon organization and participation. - Architect solutions to all technical problems for customers. Advise C-level conversations and technical strategy for cloud adoption.
2009 - 2015
click slide
CTO & Principal Architect
ClickSlide was an Moible App building platform with an API middle-ware for data transformation. Invented a technology that can transform data into any format without programming. - Led team of 4 researchers to succeed in patent #9,614,901 grant. - Pioneered a unique cyclical recruitment of talent to maintain accountability in an engineering team of 8-12 offshore. - Recruited and led an engineering team that delivered revolutionary software under budget and on time. I did hands on deployment of systems to AWS Cloud and wrote PHP & Javascript along side my teammates. - Raised hundreds of thousands in capital from 4 angels and 1 venture capital firm.
Experience
23 Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
analytics
Apache Spark
architecture
auditing
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Data Analytics
Data Management
Elastic Search
ElasticSearch
Fundraising
Hadoop
Leadership
Machine Learning (ML)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
operations
Product Management
product manager
Project Management
security
soc
Venture Capital
Education
2003 - 2010
japanese self taught
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Japanese
1998 - 2001
binghamton university
BA
Cinema
