Francis Wertz

Project Leader/Principal Engineer

Work

2021 -

Project Leader II

Holman

Leading a large team (8+ engineers) which builds and supports Telemetry and Geospatial applications.

  • Design/architect dozens of highly interoperable backend systems and applications
  • Maintain critical partnerships with our platform ownership, business liasons and technical partnerships

Lead team which built innovative EV fleet management applications

  • Integrate with variety of EV infrastructure as well as several vendor systems
  • API centric and clean architecture
  • Pioneered Blazor Server in innovation projects

Lead 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 artificial intelligence toolings and processes
  • Developed object detection/classification modeling software for live broadcast

Designed formative DevOps workflow for clients large & small

  • Established NodeJS/Typescript based bitbucket pipelines.
  • Established Azure Pipelines for enterprise web appliications.
  • Configured DevSecOps static analysis and dependency scanning tooling
  • Automated unit tests configuration
  • Automated deployments to G-Cloud, Azure, AWS via vendor tooling or terraform
  • Automate cloud infrastructure to support deployments (CDN cache cleans, high-availability health checks, etc.)
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; Imperative shell archteciture; Modern full-stack enterprise solution design
  • Accessible and equitable applications (small and large)
  • Test Driven design
  • Agile SCRUM & Kanban 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 (Azure Certified)
  • SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQl, MSSQL) & NoSql (Mongo, CosmosDB)
  • Elastic (ELK), Redis, Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage Queues, Kinesis
  • Containerize everything! Docker, colima, podman. k8s experience (AKS, EKS, OpenLens)
  • .NET (4.x, Core, 5-8), NodeJS/Typescript, Python
  • React, Vue, Angular (JS, 2+), Ractive (few bygone others)

Improving

  • Seeking certification and edu. credits in leadership, cloud, governance and change management.
  • Always working to keep pace with what technology offerings exist out there.