Lewis Franklin
Lead Software Engineer at Datavant
Parker, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLewis Franklin is a lead software engineer and technical leader with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and migrating complex systems, currently shaping integrations at Datavant after driving shipping and microservice initiatives at EasyPost. He has a strong background in backend APIs, distributed systems, and AWS infrastructure—having led multi-team efforts to centralize company data, migrate acquisitions, and extract critical carrier integrations without disrupting uptime. Lewis blends deep Python expertise (Celery, RabbitMQ) and test-driven/BDD practices with operational thinking, consistently delivering cost-saving, revenue-enhancing solutions and tooling for end-to-end testing and deployment. He’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers and setting engineering process—having led engineering and SDET teams across the US and India—and brings a pragmatic eye for consolidation, security, and maintainability. Based in Parker, Texas, he pairs a rare combination of theological graduate-level study and technical leadership, which informs a measured, people-centered approach to complex technical decisions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Divinity (MDiv), Theology, Master of Divinity (MDiv), Theology at Truett Theological SeminaryBachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology at Baylor University
English
Github Skills (62)
behave10
gherkin10
bdd10
behavior-driven-development10
editor9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
python9
typescript9
django8
to-do8
microsoft8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jolly-good-toolbelt/jgt_tools
Jul 2019 - Aug 2023
A collection of tools for common package scripts
Contributions:10 reviews, 42 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 2 months
package-scripts
jolly-good-toolbelt/sphinx_gherkindoc
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
A tool to convert Gherkin into Sphinx documentation
Contributions:5 reviews, 98 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 7 months
gherkin
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