Francis Lewis, Engineering Manager
Summary
Accomplished Software Architect and Hands-on Engineering Manager with a strong history of building, leading, and mentoring cross-functional teams in designing, developing, and deploying high-scalability, secure software solutions leveraging cloud platforms, microservices architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and performance optimization strategies. Experienced in both startup environments and well-established organizations, with expertise in architecting reliable distributed systems, implementing best practices, and driving innovation while delivering quality software.
Engineering Manager - Swipeclock | April 2020 - Present
• Integrated AI into aspects of the job board and applicant tracking process.
• Led a major modernization initiative, migrating two monolithic PHP applications to
a cloud-native, scalable microservices architecture on AWS using Go, Docker,
ECS, Lambda, and other AWS services. Upgraded PHP and addressed
significant security vulnerabilities.
• Developed an API for 3rd party integrations, enabling faster development cycles
and achieving 99.99% uptime. Resulted in approximately $80K in annual server
cost reductions.
• Implemented secure APIs with OAuth and rate-limiting and built high-
performance ETL pipelines using Go and Python.• Established DevOps best practices, including automated testing, code reviews,
and CI/CD pipelines. Mentored engineers in Go and .NET development.
• Managed partner integrations with Indeed and Twilio.
Software Architect / Engineering Manager - DSCO | Feb 2018 – April 2020
• Served as a key architect for DSCO's ETL framework, building automated tools,
examples, and documentation in Node.js, Go, PHP, Python, Java, and Rust.
• Optimized streaming capabilities from 300K to millions of records/minute for near
real-time reporting.
• Prototyped new product features based on customer feedback and developed
high-performance change data capture (CDC) pipelines.
• Streamlined AWS deployment using CloudFormation, reducing provisioning time
by 80%. Provided technical guidance on AWS architecture and DevOps.
Senior Software Engineer - Indigo Slate | Nov 2016 – Feb 2018
• Architected and deployed enterprise applications on Azure, AWS and VMware
cloud platforms, focusing on high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Optimized CI/CD pipelines for rapid, zero-downtime deployments.
• Automated provisioning of consistent developer environments using virtual
machines and containers.
• Created voice interface applications integrated with Amazon Alexa and IBM
Watson services.
• Leveraged technologies including Node.js, PHP, Java, .NET, and Docker.
Additional Experience
• Prior experience (2006 - 2016) includes roles at Getty Images, Sterling
Backcheck, Stella & Dot, Synacor, Stratus Technologies, and HR Enhancement,
with achievements in automation, security audits, application migration, and
delivering revenue-generating features.
• Extensive contributions to the open-source community and conference speaker in the UK.