Summary
Francis Secada is a Senior Python backend developer with eight-plus years building scalable APIs and microservices across healthcare, fintech, and aerospace, currently engineering high-performance investing services at The Motley Fool. He founded and actively develops Formana, a HIPAA-conscious document automation platform for NYS long-term care that combines NLP, Jinja2 templating, and ETL pipelines to reduce administrative burden. A pragmatic full-stack builder, he also runs Ranked Jobs, a data-driven talent sourcing tool leveraging Elasticsearch, Redis, and AWS, and has a history of re-architecting monoliths into microservices at organizations like HSBC and Maxar. His M.P.A. in Health Care Policy informs a systems-minded approach to software that prioritizes user outcomes and upstream determinants of health. Colleagues know him for translating policy and operational complexity into auditable, production-ready systems and for shipping pragmatic tooling that bridges clinical workflows and scalable engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) Health Care Policy, Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) Health Care Policy at Baruch College
Bachelor of Arts Individualized Major - Education, Bachelor of Arts Individualized Major - Education at New York University