Michael Franklin
Senior Software Engineer at Autodesk
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Franklin is a senior software engineer based in Vancouver with seven years’ experience building scalable cloud-native systems across Google Cloud and Azure. He blends deep Python expertise—delivering data pipelines and automation for large-scale genomics processing—with hands-on experience in C#, TypeScript/Node.js, React and iOS, and has driven infrastructure-as-code solutions and CI/CD that supported the largest cloud genomics run in Australia. Michael has led and grown engineering teams, run hiring and interview processes, and steered security and platform strategy while mentoring engineers through organizational transitions. His open-source work includes infrastructure repositories for population genomics and a metadata platform designed to scale to hundreds of thousands of samples, reflecting a focus on reproducible, auditable research software that directly enabled new clinical diagnoses.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Victorian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Education at John Monash Science SchoolBachelor of Science & Bachelor of Computer Science (Computer Science Mathematics Physics), Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Computer Science (Computer Science Mathematics Physics) at Monash University
English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
PMCC-BioinformaticsCore/janis-core
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Core python modules for Janis Pipeline workflow assistant
Contributions:7 releases, 11 reviews, 943 commits in 2 years 8 months
pythonpipelineassistantpython-moduleswdl
populationgenomics/metamist
Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
Sample level metadata system
Contributions:696 reviews, 681 PRs, 1094 pushes in 3 years 9 months
metadata-managementdata-managementmetadata
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