Summary
Chelsey Frank is a senior engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading full-stack and infrastructure teams across startups and enterprise SaaS, currently building transit planning products at Via in San Francisco. She excels at turning operational pain points into repeatable automation and self-service tooling, with a strong background in secrets, auth, and multi-cloud platform work from New Relic. Chelsey combines hands-on engineering chops—DevOps, IaC, containerization and backend systems—with cross-functional product partnering to deliver well-tested, detail-oriented solutions. She’s led globally distributed teams shipping transit data platforms that feed apps like Google Maps and Citymapper, and previously cut labor costs and scaled logistics systems as an engineer at Shyp. Known for improving team processes and mentorship, she brings both product sensibility and infrastructure discipline to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science International Relations and Environmental Economics & Agriscience, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science International Relations and Environmental Economics & Agriscience at Michigan State University