Nick Franken
Cloud Engineer III at Mutual of Omaha
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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RockstarNick Franken is a Cloud Engineer III with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable cloud platforms, developer tooling, and high-performance backend systems. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he leads platform engineering at Mutual of Omaha, enabling 20+ teams with AWS infrastructure-as-code and driving POCs that shape enterprise architecture. His background spans full-stack development, Kubernetes/Rancher deployments, CI/CD design, and performance-focused data processing—having combined Node.js and C++ to accelerate environmental data pipelines and achieved 99.9% uptime for Kubernetes-based services. An active contributor to open-source, he implemented websockets, Redis pub/sub, and heartbeat management in the Amber web framework, reflecting a practical focus on resilient realtime systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who blends deep implementation skill with strategic vision to standardize platforms and boost team productivity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
web-framework10
websocket10
crystal-lang10
pubsub9
redis9
javascript7
fancybox6
macos6
embed6
rvm6
python6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
amberframework/amber
May 2017 - May 2018
A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 29 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the implementation of the websockets infrastructure within the Amber framework. Their work focused on defining the `ClientSocket` struct, managing channel subscriptions, and handling message dispatch. They also added pubsub functionality using Redis, and implemented heartbeat functionality to manage stale socket connections. The user also added a javascript socket to work with the websocket server.
web-frameworkcrystalcohesiveframeworkamber
fridgerator/google_maps_api
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
Crystal library for the Google Maps API.
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 20 pushes in 3 years 3 months
google-maps-api
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