John Franke
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Vestaboard
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Franke is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a decade of experience building production web and serverless systems, currently shaping product and platform at Vestaboard from Nashville. He specializes in TypeScript/JavaScript across the stack and brings functional programming sensibilities to API design, GraphQL, and reusable component work (Storybook, Material UI). His background spans founding-stage engineering, AWS DevOps for HIPAA-sensitive healthcare launches, and scaling enterprise features for restaurant platforms—often owning CI/CD, security, and performance trade-offs. He’s an active open-source contributor, notable for refining TypeScript typings for Ramda in the widely used DefinitelyTyped repository. Comfortable switching hats, John has shipped mobile, backend, and iOS features and has a knack for translating complex data flows into reliable, testable systems. Beyond code, he pairs pragmatic engineering choices with strong documentation and onboarding practices that accelerate small teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Music Minor, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Music Minor at Belmont UniversitySt. Louis University High
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
javascript9
unit-testing6
ios6
dart6
apollo6
flutter-test6
mongodb6
flutter-web6
flutter6
react6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to TypeScript type definitions for the Ramda library within the DefinitelyTyped repository. They focused on implementing and refining the type definitions for the `includes` function, handling various cases like strings and arrays. Their work included adding specific type signatures, addressing feedback, and adjusting documentation. They also added their name to the list of contributors.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
jottenlips/jottenlips.github.io
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 312 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 5 months
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