Franklin Hu
Consulting Software Engineer at Oilcan, Inc
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFranklin Hu is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure and observability systems, currently consulting from Seattle. He spent eight years at Stripe and earlier helped build observability infrastructure at Twitter, including committing to the Zipkin distributed tracing project. Franklin's background blends production systems work with contributions to open-source tracing and big-data tooling dating back to Hive improvements during a Facebook internship. He holds a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley and has a track record of shipping reliable, measurable systems from real-time bidding analytics to payment platform services. Known for diving into difficult distributed-systems problems, he combines pragmatic engineering with a grounding in performance and diagnostics. Clients appreciate that he pairs deep technical expertise with clear, operational-minded delivery.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese
Github Skills (84)
distributed-tracing10
terraform10
opentelemetry10
observability10
graph10
opentracing10
zipkin10
aws10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
erb9
declarative9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
stripe9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
franklinhu/go-goodreads
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Simple Go client for Goodreads API
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
golangapiapi-clientgo-clientgo
franklinhu/sorbet_erb
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Run Sorbet typechecking on Ruby in your ERB
Contributions:1 review, 54 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year
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