Arran France is a senior engineering manager based in London with 11 years of experience building high-performing, product-focused engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on backend experience (including open-source contributions to the Rock RMS project) with a track record of platform migrations, observability improvements, and delivering measurable product outcomes like increased revenue and conversion metrics. Arran excels at turning struggling teams and individuals into reliable, psychologically safe performers and has led both platform-first and product-first organizations. He has driven technical transformations such as migrating APIs to TypeScript, consolidating job frameworks, reducing vulnerable dependencies, and introducing cross-product auth platforms that cut costs and risk. Comfortable wearing many hats, he pairs engineering judgment with product thinking and a bias for practical R&D, including AI tooling for operational tasks. Long-term he’s focused on scaling tech-first startups as a senior engineering leader while continuing hands-on contributions to open source.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering at Royal Holloway, University of London
An open source CMS, Relationship Management System (RMS) and Church Management System (ChMS) all rolled into one.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:176 commits, 53 PRs, 113 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Arran's contributions primarily revolve around adding and modifying authentication and API functionalities within the Rock RMS system. This includes the implementation of a Google OAuth2 authentication class and the addition of related REST endpoints. Further work involved styling, potentially for the newly added features.
Contributions:6 PRs, 22 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 8 months
rust-librarydeckrusthearthstoneparsing
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Arran France - Senior Engineering Manager at Lawhive