Michael 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.
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