Arran France
Product Engineer at Junction
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolArran 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
11 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
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Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
csharp10
api-design10
restful-api10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
css7
android6
android-coordinatorlayout6
android-layout6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
SparkDevNetwork/Rock
May 2015 - Feb 2019
An open source CMS, Relationship Management System (RMS) and Church Management System (ChMS) all rolled into one.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
cmsc-sharpchmsrock-rms
limejump/hermit
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
A microservice to enable client side applications to log to Humio without exposing the ingest token
Contributions:35 commits, 23 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
humiomicroservices
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