# Franco Sasieta

> Engineering Leader

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/francosasieta

Interested in the intersection of Mathematics and Computer Science. I read math books for fun.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Heartbeat Health
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Director of Software Engineering @ Optum
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Responsible for the technical direction of One Pass, a fitness subscription product marketed as an ancillary benefit, the largest growth product in Optum Health. Led a team of 50 engineers and engineering managers in its development.
* Launched the product in 2022
* Grew the product susbscribers and expanded its feature offering, adding support for family memberships
* Oversaw implementation of third party APIs and designed technical specifications and architecture to support these APIs
* Led code migrations and oversaw planning for product lifecycle management
* Mentored 5 managers in team building, engineering management principles and leadership strategies

### Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Optum
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Engineering Manager @ Rally Health
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Technical Lead, Senior Software Engineer @ Rally Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rally Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Rally Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Built distributed, highly available web services and applications. I am comfortable in all parts of the stack. 
- Extensively experience with unit testing.
- Built simple deployment pipelines using Docker and Jenkins.
- Successfully led product releases.
- Experienced with all parts of the product development lifecycle.
- Mentored new developers in our architecture, product and development processes.

Technologies used: Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Angular, Typescript, Javascript, Jenkins, Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Splunk, Librato.

### Quantitative Skills Tutor @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Center For Teaching and Learning
Assisted students with individual tutoring sessions in Mathematics and Computer Science courses.

### Teacher Assistant @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Center for Teaching and Learning
Led study sessions to help student understand difficult material.
Courses: Mathematical Reasoning (Fall 2014), Ordinary Differential Equations (Fall 2015).

### Bowdoin Science Experience Student Mentor @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Center for Learning and Teaching
Worked with first year students interested in majoring in Science to smooth their transition into college.
Provided time management guidance, course planning recommendations and tutoring.

### Research Fellow @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Brunswick, Maine
Awarded the Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship
Implemented a software tool to manipulate the gait model of a NAO robot in real time. 
Possible uses of the tool include an optimized bipedal engine or machine learning optimization.
Also researched near goalpost behavior in robotics soccer.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mathematics and Computer Science
Bowdoin College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/francosasieta
- Portfolio: http://www.francosasieta.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30