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Top SchoolJeff Franklin is a Senior Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat with 11 years of experience blending UI and portal design expertise with Node.js full-stack development to create developer-focused cloud-native experiences. He helps organizations transition traditional VM workloads to modern, containerized and serverless platforms, coaching product teams on OpenShift and Kubernetes while prototyping practical stacks and cloud services. Previously he led member-portal initiatives using Vue.js, GraphQL, Redis and blue/green OpenShift deployments, pairing hands-on engineering with release management and developer mentorship. Based in Durham, NC, Jeff brings a customer-first mindset to architecting application platforms and is known for turning complex business needs into digestible technical designs and prototypes. An uncommon strength is his mix of presentation-layer craftsmanship and platform-level operationalization, enabling smoother migrations from frontend UX through backend orchestration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Applied Engineering, Applied Engineering at Michigan State University