Peter Franza
Principal Software Architect at Harmonize
Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Franza is a Principal Software Architect with over 25 years of software engineering experience and a 12-year focused track record in product architecture and team leadership. He specializes in Java and object-oriented design, building scalable, high-availability systems for education and defense domains and leading integrations around standards like LTI, SCORM and Caliper. At Harmonize he shapes product strategy, mentors engineering teams, and represents the company in open-standards consortia, balancing technical stewardship with pragmatic collaboration. His background includes architecting web and game‑engine hybrids (Unity + web stacks), LMS platforms, and protocol-bridging middleware for simulation and C4I environments—demonstrating comfort across full-stack, real-time, and distributed systems. Known for rapidly understanding complex systems to identify improvement opportunities, he pairs hands-on engineering with strategic planning to keep products adaptable as requirements evolve. Based in Chesapeake, VA, he combines deep domain expertise in educational technology with a penchant for innovation and standards-driven interoperability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Radford University
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Github Skills (26)
jquery-plugin10
translation9
java9
translators9
nlp9
translator9
jgit8
jquery8
drag8
form-builder7
javascript7
languagetool6
spellchecking6
drag-and-drop6
gwt6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pfranza/LanguagePropertyTranslator
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 4 PRs, 67 pushes in 4 years 4 months
translationtranslatorstranslatorjavai18n
42Lines/wicket-css-scope
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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