Summary
Justin Franco is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud systems, currently supporting a confidential blockchain company from Calgary. He has led DevOps teams at Arterys, driving cloud architecture with TypeScript and AWS CDK/CloudFormation, cutting cloud costs by 30% and accelerating release cadence from quarterly to weekly. Justin pairs hands-on infrastructure work—Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana—with security leadership, having helped implement ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls and authored key ISMS policies. His background includes systems integration and low-level engineering (C++, Linux, Ruby) for medical imaging and GIS, giving him a pragmatic troubleshooting mindset across the stack. Colleagues describe him as a developer-manager hybrid who mentors engineers, improves operational maturity, and consistently translates compliance and business goals into reliable, automated platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Calgary