Leo Franchi Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Focused on growing Pilot's engineering teams. We're recruiting across design, marketing, product, engineering, operations, and sales - check out the roles at https://pilot.com/jobs. Read about our latest round of funding here - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/26/jeff-bezos-backed-start-up-pilot-hits-1point2-billion-valuation-.html

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco

Manager of the Web Platform team at Dropbox. Responsible for the entire web stack that powers our website, as well as the experience of writing web code @ Dropbox.Areas of interest:* Web languages & frameworks: React, TypeScript, and more. Static asset compilation and bundling, Service Workers, etc.* Web Performance: end-to-end performance timing and tuning. Measuring and improving both server response time and frontend JS execution time.* Accessibility: Building web products accessible to _all_ of our users.

San Francisco

Full stack software engineering: built and shipped a complex new feature for Dropbox for Business, dealing with everything from keeping distributed datastores consistent to crafting high quality JS, CSS and CoffeeScript.

Cambridge, Ma

Early engineer at Zulip, a group chat communication tool.Built major parts of the backend: tornado, django, rabbitmq.Built major parts of the frontend: JS/CSS/etc.Built the desktop app: ObjC++, Cocoa, Qt.Built major parts of the iOS app.Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in March 2014.

Boston, Ma

Building a future music app one spare hour after another.Created elegant UIs to provide a seamless music experience regardless of the original source of music.Wrote source-specific javascript scripts to fetch music from websites.Developed and polished bidirectional playlist syncing and music streaming from SpotifyInnumerable bugfixes, performance optimizations, and UI polish with tools ranging from gdb and valgrind to Instruments and XCode.

Brooklyn, New York

Never graduate:Built a networked daemon in Clojure that replicates a SQL database amongst peers.Implemented a Software Transactional Memory system in Python for Clojure-Py.Contributed to a distributed fault-tolerant Go project for running arbitrary services in a reliable manner.Contributed to droplet, a clojure DSL implementing the Bloom^L language. Developed commutative replicated data types (CRDTs) as well as examples for the droplet project.

Software consulting focusing on Qt/C++ projectsDeveloped touch-screen UIs using Qt for embedded platformsDeveloped and fixed bugs in complex Qt/C++ desktop applications

Developer of leading open-source media player Amarok. Amarok is the premier media player for the KDE desktop environment, and focuses on managing your music.Amarok 2 is a revolutionary new media player designed to make it easier than ever to explore new music---from the integrated Magnatune store to native Ampache and Mp3Tunes, as well as seamless Last.FM integration. All of this underneath a new interface designed to show you the most relevant and interesting information in beautiful new ways.

Developer of leading open-source media player Amarok. Amarok is the premier media player for the KDE desktop environment, and focuses on managing your music.Amarok 2 is a revolutionary new media player designed to make it easier than ever to explore new music---from the integrated Magnatune store to native Ampache and Mp3Tunes, as well as seamless Last.FM integration. All of this underneath a new interface designed to show you the most relevant and interesting information in beautiful new ways.

Intern in the Speech Group. Developing speech applications on handheld and mobile devices.

Porting Java/JNI C code to GNU/Linux, headless Linux, and ARM platforms.Researching and generating comparisons between Information Retrieval technologies as applied to the speech recognition domain.

Mentored a student for the Google Summer of Code 2008. Student was a developer on the Amarok open source project.

Sponsored by Google as a participant of the Google Summer of Code 2007. Developed new contextual view area for Amarok 2, based on Plasma from the KDE Environment.