Elliot Franford
Director Of Software at WHOOP
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolElliot Franford is a Director of Software with 14 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups, mid-size companies, and Fortune 500s, currently shaping member experience and go-to-market engineering at WHOOP. He combines hands-on systems and backend expertise—from Kubernetes and CI/CD to C#, Go, and cloud services—with a strong track record in healthcare, gaming, and enterprise financial systems. A pragmatic technical leader, he has driven DevOps culture, containerization, and centralized observability while mentoring teams to adopt modern tooling. Elliot’s background as a co-founder and game developer gives him an entrepreneurial, product-minded approach to engineering tradeoffs. Based in Boston, he balances production-grade engineering with hobbies that keep him sharp—reading and making video games—so he thrives on technically challenging problems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering at Champlain College
Irish, English
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Github Skills (47)
librato10
dns-record9
gcp9
aws9
backend9
dns8
coredns8
ingress8
kubernetes8
route538
linode7
monitoring7
integrate7
aws-route537
external-dns7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
efranford/EF.RiotApi
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 1 month
TempAlert/statsd-librato-backend
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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