Peter Frank
Founder at forem
Summary
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RockstarPeter Frank is a founder and product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building community-driven platforms, best known as Co‑Founder and long-time CEO of Forem, the open-source platform that powers DEV (dev.to). He combines hands-on full‑stack development—particularly front‑end and content management work—with strategic community and business leadership, and now serves as Founder in Residence at Major League Hacking. Peter has a track record of launching and scaling web marketplaces and social platforms (selling CollegeACB after growing it to millions of monthly pageviews) and has repeatedly pivoted product ideas into sustainable developer-facing services. An active open-source contributor, his work on the widely adopted Forem project reflects a focus on empowering communities and improving user-facing content and tools. With a BA in English from Wesleyan, he brings strong communication skills to technical product decisions and community engagement.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
html10
content-management-system10
rails10
content-management10
ruby-on-rails10
erb10
co9
user-interface9
open-source8
javascript7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Apr 2018 - Oct 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 30 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed primarily to the front-end and content management aspects of the Forem platform. Their work included updating sponsor information, adding content to the editor guide, adding and modifying content to the terms of service, and updating the organization account information page. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining the platform's user-facing content and promoting its community features.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
pkfrank/mgocomments
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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