Michael Francis
Lead Software Engineer at IBM
Roselle, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Francis is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of experience designing and delivering full‑stack, cloud‑native commerce systems at IBM and founding his own web services consultancy. He has led technical teams building high‑revenue e-commerce portals, payment gateway infrastructure, and touchless checkout experiences used by hundreds of thousands of customers and partners. Michael combines hands‑on architecture and DevSecOps advocacy—sunsetting legacy systems and migrating to CI/CD and modern stacks to improve developer experience and operational resilience. His background spans embedded and GPU‑accelerated signal processing, HVAC embedded controllers, and teaching graduate computer graphics, reflecting a rare mix of systems, web, and research‑adjacent expertise. Based in Roselle, NJ, he balances enterprise leadership with entrepreneurial instincts through FTech Consulting, bringing product focus to technically complex problems. Colleagues rely on him to translate stakeholder needs into scalable, maintainable solutions that drive measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Half Hollow Hills High School EastMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (31)
modular10
llvm10
toolchain10
compiler10
clang10
pdflatex9
pdf-generation9
latex8
pdf8
cpython7
nodejs7
resume7
generator7
packaging7
pypy7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KappaMikey1337/PlaylistMaker
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
Make a spotify playlist based on any string.
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
stringspotifynodejsplaylistspotify-api
SanitizedMemory/FormatAndLintPython
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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