Chris Frank
Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Frank is a Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times with 11+ years building full-stack, resilient systems in Python, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, and HTML/CSS. He leads NYT’s photo publishing platform, tackling petabyte-scale problems like real-time NLP image search, multi-region self-healing ingestion pipelines, and a company-wide React design system. As an Architecture Review Board member he combines hands-on delivery with cross-team architectural thinking to align long-lived systems with organizational needs. His background spans public and private clients (Nike, Tumblr, the Olympic Games) and a decade of nonprofit engineering leadership scaling programs to 30,000 students. Trained in philosophy with a math minor, he brings an analytical, ethics-minded perspective to engineering, design, and open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at New York University
Github Skills (75)
graphql-go10
ruby-wrapper10
filter10
rack-middleware10
middleware9
spreadsheet9
params9
database9
rack9
google-docs9
sinatra9
graphql9
stream8
golang8
google-cloud8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisfrank/rack-reducer
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
Declaratively filter data via URL params, in any Rack app, with any ORM.
Contributions:40 commits, 11 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 9 months
paramsrackrubyormfilter
chrisfrank/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:20 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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