John Fraboni
CEO at Operation Spark
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Fraboni is a seasoned software leader and founder with 15 years of experience who currently leads Operation Spark, a New Orleans nonprofit that rapidly readies historically marginalized learners for careers in software engineering. He blends hands-on full‑stack development — including contributions to an npm functional programming library (lodown) — with strategic nonprofit leadership to create pathways from training to employment. His background spans mobile and game development at Behaviour Interactive and Ludia, legacy web and backend work as a long‑time freelance developer, and early enterprise banking systems. Trained as a musician with a Master of Music in Jazz, he brings creativity and improvisational problem‑solving to technical education and product work. Known for shipping practical tooling and tests early in projects, he emphasizes reliable core functionality and measurable student outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music, Jazz/Jazz Studies, Master of Music, Jazz/Jazz Studies at Manhattan School of Music
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
functional-programming9
nodejs8
npm7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OperationSpark/lodown
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
An npm functional programming library project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 7 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the development of the lodown library, focusing on core functionality and testing. Their initial commits involved initializing the project and implementing the `each` function. They added tests for the `each` function, ensuring correct iteration over arrays and objects, along with adding filter and map functions. The user also updated the README and the Travis CI configuration.
javascripttypescriptfunctional-programmingnpm
OperationSpark/high-school-prep
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:346 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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