Larry Franks
Owner at Fitness At The Farm LLC
Belmont, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Franks is a seasoned technical writer and owner with 14 years of experience bridging developer-facing documentation, cloud engineering, and hands-on customer support. During a long tenure at Microsoft he authored and maintained documentation and code examples across Azure services—including HDInsight, Machine Learning, and AI Studio—and contributed to high-profile repos like the Azure SDK for Node.js where he focused on improving docs, samples, and testable PowerShell automation. He pairs deep product knowledge with practical engineering skills, having implemented back-end and DevOps scripts for big-data scenarios and added unit tests to improve reliability. Now running a fitness coaching business, he uniquely blends disciplined, client-focused coaching with a background in technical mentorship and content strategy. Based in Belmont, NC, he brings a rare combination of enterprise cloud experience, open-source contribution, and small-business ownership to projects that require clear communication and measurable results.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Business Computer Science, Associates, Business Computer Science at Gaston College
Github Skills (18)
hadoop-mapreduce10
apache-pig10
mapreduce10
hive10
azure-powershell10
jsdoc10
powershell10
documentation10
microsoft-azure9
azure9
dotnet-core8
javascript8
nodejs8
data-engineering8
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-docs-powershell-samples
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Azure Powershell code samples, often used in docs.microsoft.com/Azure developer documentation
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily contributed to creating and modifying PowerShell scripts used for interacting with Azure HDInsight, particularly for big data processing tasks. The changes include implementing scripts for Hive, MapReduce, Pig, and C# MapReduce jobs, and for creating HDInsight clusters, as well as updating scripts to reflect changes in the Azure environment and to support new functionality. Their contributions also include implementing unit tests for the functionality, demonstrating an emphasis on code quality and testability.
azureazure-powershell
Azure/azure-sdk-for-node
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
Azure SDK for Node.js - Documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:26 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Larry's commits primarily focus on enhancing the documentation of the Azure SDK for Node.js. They made various changes to comments and tags within the code, generating and formatting documentation. The user also added code examples and refactored text to improve clarity and provide more context for users. The work also involved setting up a development server for previewing the documentation and pushing the generated documentation to GitHub Pages.
azure-sdknodejsjavascript
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