Joseph Franks
Senior Software Engineering Manager at GitHub
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Franks is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams across fintech and developer platform domains, currently at GitHub. He progressed through hands-on roles from Associate Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer and manager, demonstrating a consistent track record of shipping reliable systems and scaling teams since joining GitHub in 2023 and moving into management in 2024. Prior roles at Sezzle and Omnitracs show experience in payments and logistics software, giving him practical expertise in operationalizing backend services. Based in the Twin Cities, he pairs a technical associate degree in Computer Software Engineering with a pragmatic, promotion-driven career path that highlights mentorship and delivery focus more than credential signaling. An engineer-turned-manager, he combines day-to-day coding empathy with strategic people and product leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Software Engineering, Associate's degree Computer Software Engineering at Hennepin Technical College
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Github Skills (11)
backup10
github-enterprise10
github-issues10
github10
latin8
translator6
continuous-integration6
translation6
continuous-testing6
javascript5
open-source1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mm-java1/pig-latin
Mar 2016 - Mar 2022
Project 2 - Pig Latin Translator
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years
translationlatintranslatorpig-latinpig
mm-java1/web-data-projects
Apr 2016 - Mar 2022
Project 3 - Web Data Project
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years
javascriptweb-data
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