Frankie Dintino is a Systems Architect with 17 years of experience designing and shipping web systems from newsroom interactive features to enterprise-grade infrastructure at The Atlantic. He progressed through technical leadership roles—Senior Web Developer, Lead Storytelling Engineer—into his current architecture role, blending hands-on coding with strategic platform decisions. Frankie is an active open-source contributor with notable work improving TypeScript typings for CKEditor 5 in DefinitelyTyped and fixing cross-platform issues in Django-related projects, reflecting deep full-stack and tooling expertise. His contributions to nginx upload handling and templating engines show a practical focus on robustness, HTTP behavior, and developer experience. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset informed by years of production-scale web operations and test automation. Collectedly, his background in psychology and long tenure in editorial tech give him an uncommon ability to translate user and editorial needs into resilient technical solutions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Psychology, Bachelor's Degree, Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Django admin classes that allow for nested inlines
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 466 commits in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Frankie primarily contributed to the `django-nested-admin` project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the management and display of nested inlines in the Django admin interface. Their work involved modifications to the codebase to include handling of dynamically added forms, enhancements to the drag-and-drop functionality, and fixes to the handling of validation errors. Additionally, they improved the integration with the Django administration interface and grappelli, addressing inconsistencies in styling and behavior.
A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 releases, 113 commits, 70 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Frankie primarily contributed to the `jinja-compat.js` file, adding features and fixing code style. They implemented support for Python slice syntax, including start, stop, and step. Additionally, they addressed code style issues and enhanced array and object functionalities to be compatible with Python's behavior. Finally, they fixed a bug related to the indent filter.
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Frankie Dintino - Systems Architect at The Atlantic