Francis Wertz

Project Leader/Principal Engineer

Work

2021 -

Project Leader II

Holman

Leading a team which builds next generation features within our customer facing web platforms

  • Quick to learn complex aspects of the business and its systems
  • Leading search and analytics initiatives
  • Developer learning advocate; Conference speaker/talks
  • Building strong professional/enterprise skills
2015 - 2021

Sr. Software Lead/Architect

Seisan Consulting

Architect and build/oversee myriad of internet enabled internal/public facing applications.

  • Championed modern agile workflows
  • Laid groundwork to modern tooling/platforms
  • Created a social media shopping platform
  • Created interactive theater ticket ordering system
  • Built and maintain complex employee/asset dispatching system
  • Laying groundwork for artificatial intelligence toolings and processes
  • Developed object detection/classification modeling software for live broadcast
2013 - 2015

Software Engineer

Seisan Consulting

Worked with small teams on creating a mix of GIS, web and mobile applications.

  • Piloted Seisan's NodeJS adoption
  • Led adoption of Atlassian software solutions

Education

2012

Bachelor of Science

Computer Sciences

Lock Haven University

ACM President/Member
Greek Life Leadership

Proficiencies

General
  • Reducing complex problems into workable solutions
  • Connecting with others and understanding their technology needs
  • Streamlining and improving processes
Concepts
  • Clean architecture; Modern full-stack solution design
  • Test Driven design
  • Agile SCRUM & Kahnban and devops
  • Single-page app design as well as basic SEO. Responsive design + "mobile first"
Tools & Stacks

Developed with countless tools/frameworks over the years to create simple modules, MVPs, Mobile apps and Web Solutions for enterprise.

  • AWS & Azure
  • SQL (Postgres, MySQl, MSSQL, Oracle) & NoSql (Mongo)
  • Elastic (ELK), Redis, Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Kinesis
  • Containerize all the things
  • .NET (4.x, Core, 6+), NodeJS/Typescript, Python
  • React, Vue, Angular (JS, 2+), Ractive (few bygone others)

Improving

Leadership

Leading large teams. Majority Experience is leading software teams of four or less.

Tech

Always working to keep pace with what technology offerings exist out there.

  • Improve understanding of machine learning theory as well as establish a shortlist of core tools to master
  • Applicable usage of GraphQL in a new or existing environment
  • Author and contribute more to open initatives (both at a corporate and personal level)