# Alberto Franco > Senior Software Engineer Location: Queens, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/albertofranco Computer Science Graudate from CUNY Queens College. Full stack developer. Experienced in Go, Javascript, Python, HTML/CSS, Java, and C++. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ tech company Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area Go programmer ### Teaching Assistant and Mentor @ CUNY Tech Prep Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area Assist in helping students learn in demand technologies (React, NodeJS, and web development), providing mentorship, mock interviews, and project feedback ### Senior Software Engineer @ TheGuarantors Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Go and JavaScript developer • Designed and implemented a comprehensive test suite using GitHub Actions, covering functional, regression, and edge case scenarios, resulting in a significant reduction of bugs and enhancing overall release confidence • Diligently maintained a complex legacy system, proactively troubleshooting issues, applying critical updates, and refactoring code when necessary, ensuring the system's continued reliability and functionality, and extending its operational life while minimizing technical debt • Successfully integrated various AWS services into the application architecture, including but not limited to EKS, AppConfig, S3, and RDS, to optimize scalability, reliability, and performance, resulting in a more robust and cost-efficient system • Successfully converted a JavaScript codebase to TypeScript, enhancing code maintainability and improving overall development efficiency, resulting in a more robust and scalable application ### Software Engineer @ CircleCI Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote • Go developer • Developed and maintained container-runner, the Kubernetes solution for using containers on Self-hosted Runners which allowed for using Docker images for building and testing • Developed and maintained the Self-hosted Runner client, the solution for using your own infrastructure for running jobs which allowed for a wider variety of architectures for building and testing and additional control over the build environment • Developed and maintained the Runner UI installation wizard and Inventory using React that allowed customers a faster and easier way to view and create Runner related resources from the browser • Troubleshooted customer issues across across our distributed systems • Implemented monitoring for our services using DataDog UX synthetics testing and Honeycomb observability to detect potential issues quickly • Verified Runner services and features for every release of our Server product ### Software Engineer @ Ghostery, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Go developer • Built web application that searched for all data we had on a user for easy export and deleting capabilities to comply with GDPR (React + Go) • Built CI/CD process for the Ghostery Midnight product that runs Javascript and Go code linting and tests, builds Windows and Mac versions, uploaded to AWS S3 buckets, and posted the builds to their appropriate Jira tickets for testing to help speed up and automate the release process • Created dashboard to monitor VPN usage and statistics on the Ghostery Midnight product using React and Go • Developed and maintained various back end solutions and RESTful APIs in Go (user account data, Stripe integrations, email integrations) • Maintained and implemented features for Ghostery Midnight desktop application (React + Electron + Go) ### Software Engineer @ Abstract Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote • Go developer • Ported existing Javascript code to Go to improve overall application performance • Developed and maintained features for Abstract desktop application (React + Electron + Go) • Maintained and improved Go command line tool that communicates between the desktop and git repositories • Developed a new customer support API that uses Ruby on Rails to pull relevant customer data into Zendesk tickets and authenticates the user • Troubleshooted and implemented fixes for various customer issues in React, Go, and Ruby on Rails code ### Software Engineer @ Dealertrack Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Developed a restful API using the Django Rest Framework that captures data sent between Dealertrack and multiple businesses and stores it in the appropriate ECS bucket and retrieves data based on request headers • Created unit tests for 100% code coverage that run in the CI/CD pipeline for the API • Developed a ReactJS frontend that interacts with the restful API so that non-technical people can retrieve data stored in the ECS buckets ### Full Stack Developer @ CUNY Tech Prep Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Prepare for a software engineering career via a competitive, yearlong training program that blends a full stack JavaScript boot camp with professional development coaching • Learn in-demand technologies like React and Node + Express as well as tools & processes for design, implementation, testing, and deployment like agile & Scrum with Trello, TDD, CI/CD, etc. • Designed and developed a web application using React.js to retrieve and store user data dynamically into PostgreSQL, and display information on a Google Map, with a team of 3 people ### Software Engineering Intern @ Cox Automotive Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Lake Success, New York • Designed and developed a Splunk dashboard using custom XML and queries to parse logs from dealership and internal applications and catch errors before they reach end-users • Built a script in IBM Datapower with JavaScript to normalize and aggregate data on potential car buyers that converted XML dealership feeds into JSON mappings for improved searchability and error detection • Follow Scrum best practices as part of an eight-person development team, participating in daily standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives ### Web Forms Programmer @ Accumedic Computer Systems, Inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Great Neck • Migrated hundreds of paper medical forms from clients into Accumedic’s EMR system, performed manual tests to ensure field accuracy and display format, and updated forms based on customer feedback. ### Robotics Intern @ York College of the City University of New York Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Jamaica, New York • Created a hexacopter with the instruction of a mentor • Learned how to create 3D graphics using computer software (TinkerCad) • Designed my own objects using a 3D printer and TinkerCad Software • Tested and debugged the hardware using the Arduino software • Programmed the MultiWii circuit board to use all of the added components ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Queens College Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Computer Engineering The City College of New York Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/afranco07 - GitHub: https://github.com/afranco07 - Website: https://albertofranco.dev/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/albertofranco JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/albertofranco/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22