Frank West
Brewery Solutions Engineering Manager at Next Glass
Hanford, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank West is a staff software engineer focused on developer acceleration with over a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams. Based in Hanford, CA, he has progressed from full-stack and DevOps roles to managing brewery solutions and now enabling developer productivity at Next Glass. His contributions to open-source projects like Open Food Network show a pragmatic back-end focus—SSL, redirects, order-cycle fixes and data integrity work that keep production systems reliable. A lifelong learner and occasional entrepreneur, he pairs steady production-grade engineering with a curiosity that keeps him exploring new tools and approaches.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
English
Github Skills (9)
seeding10
ruby-rails10
rails10
seed10
ruby10
sql7
f5
arm5
harvest5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 28 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the application. Their work includes confirming the first user during database seeding, setting SSL protocols for secure connections, fixing a NoMethodError in the order cycles index, adding rack-rewrite for redirect handling, and renaming a product bulk edit action. The user also implemented changes to remove the previous primary taxon from taxons when the primary taxon is changed.
farmersdistributorsrailsnonprofitfood
frank-west-iii/git-scripts
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
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