Craig Franklin
Developer at Agworld
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCraig Franklin is a pragmatic backend developer with 11 years’ experience building APIs and data-driven applications, currently contributing to Agworld from Melbourne. He’s fluent across TypeScript (React/Node), Python data science, and Ruby on Rails, and balances backend focus with frontend work when projects demand full-stack ownership. Craig has led API and integrations teams and spoken about his long-running Python/R/React machine-learning footy tipping app at PyCon Japan and PyCon Poland, showing both engineering depth and open community engagement. He values readable, maintainable code and collaboration, treating software as a team sport that requires close partnership with product and business stakeholders. A former English teacher and international project manager, he brings strong communication skills and cross-cultural experience to technical leadership and mentoring.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters at University of WashingtonCertificate of Teaching ESL Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Certificate of Teaching ESL Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor at School of Teaching ESL
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (94)
sports-data10
data-storage10
r9
compose9
adminjs9
pipeline9
kedro9
read-write9
machine-learning9
jupyter9
jupyter-notebook9
science8
dynamodb8
modular8
python8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cfranklin11/mcfly-trends
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
Express/React app that segments Google Trends data by month.
Contributions:18 PRs, 73 pushes, 19 branches in 4 years 3 months
reactexpressjssegmentsexpresstrends
cfranklin11/toy-bender
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
Backbone/D3 Toy Robot Challenge, starring Bender
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
roboticsbackbonetoyrobot-challengebender
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.