Summary
Francis Kotarski is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building scalable back-end systems and modernizing legacy platforms. He combines strong Python data engineering skills—pandas, NumPy, Celery—with cloud-first, event-driven design to deliver performant ETL, reporting, and integration solutions for complex scientific and financial domains. At the New York Genome Center he led cloud modernization efforts and integrated novel sequencer hardware, bridging researcher workflows with production services. His background includes automating FX operations and creating trader-facing Excel tooling, showing an ability to translate domain expertise into practical automation. Comfortable collaborating with researchers and analysts, he brings both rigorous technical depth from an MS in Computer Science and a pragmatic, production-focused mindset. An understated strength is his track record of reducing operational load through tooling and pipelines that make complex data flows reliable and auditable.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English