Alex Franken
Contracting Software Engineer at Group 1001
Zionsville, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Franken is a contracting software engineer and engineering leader with over two decades of experience building scalable, observable enterprise systems across startups and Fortune 100 companies. He combines hands-on architecture and hands-on delivery—designing high-throughput eventing platforms, refactoring legacy Java stacks into Spring Boot/Kotlin microservices, and driving DevOps adoption across teams. At Salesforce he optimized event ingestion for billions of daily events and at American Express he implemented OpenTelemetry-based observability and trace propagation strategies that reduced mean time to resolution. He’s led cross-functional programs (e.g., Nike Connected Membership) that span product, data engineering, and platform teams, and has deep experience with cloud-native stacks (GCP, Kafka, Kubernetes, BigQuery) and CI/CD. An active backend contributor, he modernized OHDSI WebAPI by integrating Spring Boot and upgrading its Vocabulary Service, reflecting a taste for practical infrastructure improvements. Based in Zionsville, Indiana, Alex is known for mentoring high-performing teams and instilling extreme ownership while preferring pragmatic, minimally invasive solutions that deliver measurable business value.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Informatics, BS Informatics at Indiana University IndianapolisCarroll High School
English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
java10
spring-boot10
jdbc9
rest-api8
sql8
jersey7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OHDSI/WebAPI
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
OHDSI WebAPI contains all OHDSI services that can be called from OHDSI applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 commits, 15 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex was primarily involved in refactoring and integrating Spring Boot with the existing codebase. Their work included Jersey auto-configuration, removal of web.xml, and other infrastructure changes. Furthermore, the user updated the Vocabulary Service, including adding JDBC support and making the service compatible with a 'beta' service.
ohdsiohdsi-webapiwebapi
OHDSI/Olympus
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:120 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 8 months
configuratorolympusohdsilauncherunder-development
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