Vincent Franco
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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SeniorVincent Franco is a seasoned technology executive and Chief Technology Officer based in Milwaukee with 15 years of experience building scalable, test-driven systems used by millions. He has led engineering at high-growth ticketing and commerce platforms—driving major rewrites, e-commerce inventory resilience, and TDD adoption while scaling teams and contractor strategies. At Eventbrite he architected Venue, Pulse, and Theme Builder Studio, open-sourced core SDKs, and guided product launches through careful incremental rollouts and high test coverage. He has deep back-end expertise (notably in Ruby/Rails and Elixir influences) and a pragmatic open-source streak demonstrated by contributions that fixed subtle S3 URL/encoding issues and improved product bundling workflows. Known for turning legacy platforms into maintainable, service-oriented architectures, he pairs hands-on coding with strong operational and mentoring instincts. Vincent’s mix of product-focused architecture and attention to testing and developer workflows makes him adept at shipping resilient systems under real-world load.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
s3-bucket10
aws-s310
testing10
rspec10
capybara10
amazon-s310
carrierwave10
uri10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
rails9
git7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spree-contrib/spree-product-assembly
Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Adds ability to make product bundles
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:22 commits, 22 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on improving the quality and stability of the product assembly functionality. Their contributions include skipping failing tests and adjusting the testing environment to accommodate potential failures. Further contributions involve refactoring code, removing unnecessary elements, and fixing an issue related to the double creation of parts during the "add to cart" feature. The user also implemented a "smart add" feature to refine existing code.
bundlesability
dwilkie/carrierwave_direct
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Process your uploads in the background by uploading directly to S3
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions focused on modifying the `carrierwave_direct` library, specifically addressing URL encoding and escaping issues. They worked on the `uploader.rb` and related files, modifying how keys and URLs are handled to ensure correct behavior when uploading files to S3. These changes involved adjusting how URLs are parsed and encoded to prevent double-escaping characters. The user also worked on related testing configurations.
aws-s3awsuploadingbackground
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