Greg Franko
Senior Frontend Developer at Caesars Entertainment
Wexford, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Franko is a Senior Frontend Developer with 14 years of experience building large-scale React and React Native applications and shipping features used by hundreds of thousands of users. He has led frontend efforts at Caesars, BrickSeek, and Yahoo, architecting production-ready Next.js/TypeScript stacks, payment integrations, KYC flows, and cross-platform mobile parity. Comfortable mentoring engineers, he also owns the full-stack side of projects—building Node.js/Hapi APIs and Postgres backends for side projects—while preferring a stack of Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Redux, Node, Hapi, and Postgres. An active open-source maintainer of several long-lived jQuery plugins, Greg brings a pragmatic blend of legacy-web expertise and modern frontend architecture to deliver intuitive UI/UX and reliable product launches. Based in Wexford, PA, he’s as focused on developer experience (linting, testing, CI/CD, Storybook) as on customer-facing polish.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Mary WashingtonJames Madison High School
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
jquery10
bootstrap10
jquery-mobile10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
bootstra10
documentation10
requirejs9
design-patterns9
lodash9
hide6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gfranko/jquery.selectBoxIt.js
Mar 2012 - Jun 2019
A jQuery Select Box Plugin for Mobile, Tablet, and Desktop
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:718 commits, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg appears to be responsible for maintaining and updating the jQuery SelectBoxIt plugin, as evidenced by numerous commits related to code improvements, bug fixes, and updates to the core logic. They focused on enhancing the user experience by modifying the jQuery UI integrations, and incorporating changes to the JavaScript code, CSS styles, HTML documentation, and overall performance. They also worked on implementing various updates that improved the overall functionality of the select box plugin.
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BoilerplateMVC/Backbone-Require-Boilerplate
May 2012 - Sep 2014
A Rad Backbone.js and Require.js Boilerplate Project.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg's commits primarily focused on updating the front-end of the application by including and updating JavaScript libraries. Specifically, the user updated the versions of jQuery, Lodash, and jQuery Mobile, along with related configuration files. The changes also involved adding code to handle mobile browser detection and modifying the template text.
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