Franz See
Chief Technology Officer at PDAX
Pasay, Philippines
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Top SchoolFranz See is a seasoned technology leader and three-time CTO with 15 years of experience building engineering teams and shipping fintech and platform products across distributed, remote-first organizations. He has repeatedly scaled teams from zero to double digits, established engineering operations and OKRs, and improved release cadence and reliability metrics in high-stakes financial products. Technically fluent in Java, Python, NodeJS and frameworks from Spring to Django and Quarkus, he remains hands-on—contributing to open-source tooling such as the Robot Framework Database Library with robust DB API support. His background spans global roles across the Philippines, US, Europe and Australia, and he’s delivered large scraper and KYC pipelines that reached broad LATAM coverage. With an Executive MBA in Strategic Leadership and a track record of reducing lead times and churn risk, he blends strategic vision with pragmatic engineering execution. An often overlooked strength is his consistent focus on operational reliability and developer productivity as levers for sustainable growth.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer Systems Engineering at De La Salle UniversityColegio San Agustin, MakatiExecutive MBA Strategic Leadership, Executive MBA Strategic Leadership at Valar Institute
English, Filipino
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Github Skills (20)
python10
sql10
robotframework10
mysql9
postgresql9
java9
profiling9
database-design9
apidoc8
api8
testing8
one-to-one6
design-patterns6
lazy-loading6
hibernate6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MarketSquare/Robotframework-Database-Library
Nov 2010 - Jun 2014
The Database Library for Robot Framework allows you to query a database and verify the results using different Python DB modules (installed separately).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Franz primarily contributed to the development of the Database Library for Robot Framework. They implemented core functionalities such as querying the database, returning results, and adding a method to check if a value exists. The user also refactored and added support for DB API 2.0 modules, with specific attention to PostgreSQL and MySQL. Furthermore, they added functionality to execute SQL scripts and connect to the database via configuration files.
databasepythonrobotframework
ccxt-rest/ccxt-rest-website
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
ccxt-rest's website source code
Contributions:89 commits, 163 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
ccxt
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