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Francis B. - Remote software architect

Francis B.

Solutions Architect / Back-end Engineer
Based in: 🇨🇦 Canada
Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-4)

About

Francis has built and led teams that have successfully developed robust and efficient web applications and ecosystems. He brings over a decade and a half of hands-on experience with high-availability, high-traffic applications in both monolithic and micro-service architectures. Francis strives for agility and efficiency, utilizing available resources to their best to adhere to the highest and greatest delivery standards.

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Work Experience

Full-stack Engineer
SimplyWise | Apr 2024 - Present
Python
Django
Celery
Django Celery
AWS

Developed new features and maintained a monolithic back-end application on Django. Implemented asynchronous processes with RabbitMQ and SQS queues using Celery workers.

Maintained a React web application and React Native mobile application for iOS and Android.

Standardized and maintained an AWS infrastructure on Terraform, including a full migration from Amazon EKS to Amazon ECS with no downtime.

Solutions Architect / Tech Lead
Unavailable | Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
PHP
Python
Laravel
Marketing Automation
Leadership
Solution Architecture
Vue.js
Fastapi
AI
ChatGPT
Claude

Led a team of 2 back-end, 1 AI and 1 DevOps engineers.

Architected and led the development of a web-based AI marketing automation platform on Laravel, FastAPI and Flowise. Implemented user interfaces using InertiaJS (Vue) and the TALL stack (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel and Livewire).

Architected and oversaw the deployment of the applications on Linode with Terraform.

Certifications & Awards

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services | Nov 2024
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Jul 2020