Frank Jania
Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Jania is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling data and search platforms, currently directing Shopify’s data platform and a 45-engineer organization. He blends deep hands-on technical fluency—from Elasticsearch architectures and real-time ingest pipelines to Python, AWS Lambda, and frontend systems—with strong people management and delivery discipline proven at GitHub, Uber, Google and betaworks. Frank has repeatedly turned fragile legacy systems into scalable, testable architectures while aligning multi-million-dollar infrastructure trade-offs with product goals. Based in Chapel Hill, he is also a visible LGBTQ+ organizer and mentor, having co-led ERGs at GitHub and Out in Tech, which speaks to his commitment to inclusive engineering culture. Notably, he pairs product-minded engineering with operational empathy, having owned everything from release processes and observability to cost modeling and experimental platforms.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BEEE, Electrical Engineering, BEEE, Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English
Github Skills (11)
twitter10
twitter-api10
python8
spout8
kinesis-stream7
storm7
aws-sdk2
loops2
algorithm1
data-structures1
algorithms1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fjania/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:12 pushes in 9 years 11 months
fjania/fjania.com
Oct 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 years 4 months
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