Dean Francis
Principal Engineer at REA Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
👤
SeniorDean Francis is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building distributed, event-driven systems and front-end applications across Node.js, TypeScript, Scala and AWS. He blends hands-on architecture and engineering with empathetic team leadership, agile facilitation, and a commitment to accessibility and test-driven practices. Known for enabling positive, trusting cultures, he prioritises helping teams flourish through collaboration and pragmatic processes. Technically versatile, he has led React and GraphQL efforts, shaped microservices at scale, and is actively learning functional programming, Rust and game development. Outside work he balances engineering discipline with creativity—fatherhood, vinyl collecting, music production and playful side projects inform his practical but exploratory approach.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
ableton-live6
rust5
api5
ide5
javascript4
js4
studio3
wallet3
compiler3
typescript3
nodejs3
crypto2
encryption2
cryptography2
password-manager2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deanfra/voxelcraft
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:48 commits, 34 pushes in 6 months
deanfra/deanfra.github.io
Mar 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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.