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 (69)
rack10
spreadsheet10
graphql-go10
params10
database10
ruby-wrapper10
airtable10
filter10
sequel10
google-docs10
rack-middleware10
sinatra10
graphql10
roda10
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisfrank/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Nov 2025
Contributions:21 pushes in 10 years 5 months
chrisfrank/uninformed
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Nostalgically simple forms for React and Preact
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
preactreactajax-formuncontrolled-components
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