Simeon Franklin
Staff Software Engineer at PlusPlus
Modesto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimeon Franklin is a Staff Software Engineer and engineering lead with 14+ years building web platforms, developer tools, and internal education programs across startups and large tech companies. He blends hands-on full‑stack experience—from legacy desktop and PHP frameworks through Django and modern JavaScript—with leadership in developer productivity and curriculum design. At Twitter he led the @university technical education program and helped scale peer-to-peer learning, mentoring instructors and shipping internal tools to improve engineering effectiveness. He has a long history teaching Python and Django to engineers at major firms and co-organized SF Python meetups and early PyBay conferences, reflecting deep community involvement. Simeon’s background includes building bespoke frameworks and CMSs, practical data work like warehousing and REST services, and a knack for standards‑compliant front-end engineering that often positions him as the team’s JavaScript and web‑standards authority.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at California State University, Stanislaus
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Github Skills (45)
django10
flask10
python9
kotlin9
aws-lambda9
shell8
docker8
monorepo8
protobuf8
build-system8
scala8
java8
asciidoc8
lockfile8
restructuredtext7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simeonf/df
Apr 2015 - Feb 2023
django site running film criticism website
Contributions:56 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
django
pybay/pybay_old
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Website for PyBay prior to 2024 - PyBay.com --> PyBay.org
Contributions:274 commits, 79 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pythonbay-areadjangoflaskpython3
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