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Francis Genet

Engineering Manager
French

Technical Leadership
Platform Engineering
Distributed Systems
Compliance & Data Integrity
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Experiences
  • Lead a platform team owning core data infrastructure services used by thousands of customers, ensuring reliability and scalability across distributed systems
  • Own planning, prioritization, roadmap sequencing, and cross-team dependency management
  • Guide architectural decisions for distributed systems handling large-scale batch data processing on AWS and GCP
  • Drive observability practices (Datadog monitoring, dashboards, alerting) and operational readiness across platform services
  • Restructured repository governance and engineering standards to improve cross-team collaboration
  • Support hiring, onboarding, and engineer career development through regular 1:1s and feedback
  • Built the GCS Data Lake destination connector end-to-end (Apache Iceberg), spanning CDK infrastructure, implementation, testing, and documentation
  • Resolved a critical orchestrator hang affecting all customers — multi-threaded debugging and fix across the replication pipeline
  • Led multi-region dataplane expansion (Iowa/GCP), implementing Datadog monitors and Terraform infrastructure with spot instance support
  • Implemented dynamic log-level control via feature flags and built replication logging to cloud storage, improving observability and incident response
  • Enhanced Iceberg CDK infrastructure ensuring correctness and data integrity across multiple downstream connectors
  • Led and mentored a team of 3-4 engineers; defined project scope, timelines, and priorities aligned with business objectives
  • Designed real-time and batch data pipelines for usage tracking and billing, ensuring data integrity at scale
  • Owned security and compliance: pentest reviews, vulnerability remediation, SOC 2 audit readiness (Vanta)
  • Implemented observability infrastructure (Datadog) for platform reliability and rapid incident response
  • Built automated billing system (Stripe/Retool), GCP Marketplace integration, and GitHub version control integration
  • Built RESTful APIs (Django/DRF) for a healthcare transparency platform, ensuring secure data delivery in a regulated health-data environment
  • Built backend systems in a regulated healthcare insurance environment, partnering with compliance teams on data integrity and regulatory adherence
  • Tech lead of the API discipline — setting code standards, recruitment rubrics, and tackling tech debt across teams
  • Led platform re-architecture ("Space" project); built metrics pipelines, APIs (Django/DRF), and async workflows (Redis, Celery)
  • Built provisioning systems, monitoring tools, and data aggregation platform (Python/Django)
Education

Institute of Information Technology

SUPINFO - International University

October 2010 to April 2012
Master of Science (major computer science, minor management)

Institute of Information Technology

SUPINFO - International University

November 2007 to October 2010
Bachelor of science (Computer science)
Interests

Motorsports

  • SCCA member - Spec Miatas
  • Motorcycles - BMW 1250GS
  • Virtual motorsports events (endurance - 24hrs)