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.
14 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 (53)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simeonf/BeginnerSIG
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Python exercises for the SF Python Meetup Beginner Special Interest Group
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year
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twitter-archive/cdk
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
CDK is a tool to quickly generate single-file html slide presentations from AsciiDoc
Contributions:76 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
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