Michael Frank
Chief Technology Officer at Gracchus Consulting
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Frank is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of hands-on engineering and systems experience. He progressed from systems and operations roles into senior systems development positions at AWS, where he spent over a decade solving large-scale infrastructure and reliability challenges. Now leading Gracchus Consulting, he combines deep operational know-how with architectural judgment to help organizations modernize cloud platforms and automate resilient deployments. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into repeatable engineering patterns and for a motto-driven approach—"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam"—that reflects a bias toward finding or building the right path. His background spans startups to hyperscale cloud, giving him a rare perspective on both rapid iteration and production-grade rigor. He brings practical leadership that blends hands-on technical execution with strategic roadmap delivery.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Washington
Stackoverflow
483reputation
23kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (23)
reactive7
concurrent7
akka7
high-performance7
streaming7
macos6
concurrency6
operating-system6
typesafe6
uuid6
hocon6
python6
scala6
java6
actor-model5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
msfrank/mandelbrot-server
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:183 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 1 year
msfrank/akka-smr
Dec 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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