Romain Francez
Engineering at Workyard
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Francez is an experienced engineering leader and hands-on iOS specialist with 12 years building customer-focused mobile and web products across startups and scale-ups in Sydney and Europe. He has led technical teams at Canva and ubank, contributed as a senior engineer at Dovetail and Experian, and currently drives engineering at Workyard, blending product sensibility with delivery discipline. His background as a founder and consultant gives him a strong commercial instinct and an ability to translate user needs into prototypes and high-quality applications. Trained in advanced AI and competitive intelligence (MSc and MBA), he pairs technical depth with strategic insight—helping teams make product decisions grounded in customer research. Notably, he moves comfortably between shipping production iOS apps and mentoring cross-functional teams, making him effective at scaling both codebases and people.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Advanced Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc) Advanced Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at The University of ManchesterMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at ENSIIE - Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie & l'EntrepriseMBA Competitive Intelligence Knowledge Management Strategy, MBA Competitive Intelligence Knowledge Management Strategy at Ecole de Guerre Economique
French, English
Github Skills (61)
objective-c10
ios10
gulp10
swift10
macos10
unlock10
lookup9
mac-address9
xcode9
cocoapods9
cordova-plugin9
cordova-ios-plugin9
frontend8
carthage8
sass-framework8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bitsandco/generator-ngf
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:18 PRs, 19 pushes, 20 branches in 6 months
bitsandco/foundation-apps
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 7 months
developingfully-responsivecssjavascriptframework
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