Fran Fabrizio
IT Director, Institute For Social Research And Data Innovation (IPUMS MPC MnRDC LCC)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolFran Fabrizio is an IT director and seasoned software engineer with 25+ years of experience building and leading technology teams that support large-scale research computing in higher education. Based in Minneapolis, he leads IT for IPUMS and related data centers at the University of Minnesota, architecting high-performance and distributed systems that power the world’s largest demographic data collection used by over 100,000 researchers and policymakers. His strengths span strategic IT planning, procurement, open source software, agile development, and hands-on algorithm and HPC design—bridging academic research needs with production-grade infrastructure. He has a track record of growing teams and aligning technical priorities with grant-driven research, and he brings practical experience from roles ranging from systems admin to classroom instructor. Active in university governance and nonprofit leadership, he has served as a P&A senator and as president of GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities, combining technical stewardship with community advocacy. A biologist-turned-computer scientist with graduate training in parallel and distributed computing, he often applies interdisciplinary perspective to solve complex data and computation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer and Information Sciences (Bioinformatics, Parallel and Distributed Computing), Masters, Computer and Information Sciences (Bioinformatics, Parallel and Distributed Computing) at University of Alabama at BirminghamThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science, Computer Science (2nd major in Biology), Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (2nd major in Biology) at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (63)
google-apps-script9
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swagger9
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restful9
flask9
python8
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flask-application7
webapp6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
franfabrizio/just-enough-it-leadership
Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
The Just Enough IT Management blog.
Contributions:3 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
blog-managementit-management
ipums/ipums.github.io
Jun 2015 - Apr 2025
The ISRDI IT blog.
Contributions:10 reviews, 115 PRs, 329 pushes in 9 years 11 months
it-blogmpc
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