Franco Valdes
Director Of Engineering at Safety Radar
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFranco Valdes is a Director of Engineering and founder who blends 11 years of hands-on software craft with product-first entrepreneurship, currently building FestKit to replace festival planners’ spreadsheet-and-email chaos with map-driven site planning, vendor self-serve, and AI-powered workflows. He previously ran Carta Maps for four years, pivoting the product after discovering a strong user base of festival organizers and doubling down on a niche market. At Safety Radar he leads engineering while shipping fast as a solo founder using React, React Native, Postgres, Hono, and modern AI tooling. His background spans startups and enterprise teams—from Kroger Digital to nearly seven years at Union where he grew into Director of Technology—giving him deep experience scaling teams and systems. Based in Charlotte, NC, he’s equally at home talking maps, SaaS, or the product insights that come from shipping and iterating in public.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Msgr Pace High SchoolBroward CollegeBA, International Business, BA, International Business at University of Virginia
Spanish
Github Skills (123)
ui-components10
mobile-web10
grav-plugin10
framework710
javascript10
stencil10
ionic10
control-panel10
api10
angular10
progressive-web-apps10
typescript10
cross-platform10
progressive10
vue10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fvaldes33/domc
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Mission Control for Digital Ocean
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
fvaldes33/crafty-cli
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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