Francis Secada
Senior Python Backend Dev - API And Microservices at Formana
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFrancis 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 CollegeBachelor of Arts Individualized Major - Education Politics Theory Cultural & Media studies, Bachelor of Arts Individualized Major - Education Politics Theory Cultural & Media studies at New York University
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Github Skills (192)
text-processing10
xps10
mupdf10
requirements10
http-server10
pdf10
data-extraction10
python-bindings10
rendering9
lockfile9
pip-tools9
django9
csv9
epub9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fsecada01/TextSpitter
Nov 2018 - Feb 2025
Python package that spits out text from your document files!
Contributions:9 releases, 12 PRs, 38 pushes in 6 years 4 months
python-packagepythonspits
fsecada01/Word-To-HTML-Microservice
Oct 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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