Colton Franco
Lead Software Engineer at Merck
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColton Franco is a Lead Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable full-stack systems, now driving technical product management and engineering at Merck. He has a proven track record of shipping end-to-end solutions as the sole engineer at a startup that was later acquired by Merck, and has since progressed through senior backend roles into leadership. Comfortable owning ambiguous projects, Colton excels at delivering cost-effective, maintainable software across multidisciplinary teams while juggling multiple cross-functional initiatives. His background in computer engineering and early experience in academia and agtech give him a pragmatic systems mindset paired with domain versatility. Colton combines deep technical execution with product-focused thinking, often bridging engineering constraints and business priorities to accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Senior, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Senior at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English
Stackoverflow
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155kreached
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12questions
Github Skills (37)
convergence8
xamarin-android7
xamarin-ios7
azure7
selector6
mockito6
xamarin-forms6
bluetooth6
jsonpath6
css6
java6
unit-testing6
microsoft6
database5
intelligent5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
coltonf93/SmartGrid
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 30 PRs, 54 pushes in 17 days
simulationprofitminimizingsellsmart-grid
ChrisWhitehill/Team-Haverick
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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