About

I'm Franky, a product engineer based in California. I've spent the last 5 years building products from the ground up at early-stage startups. I care about clean architecture, thoughtful design decisions, and shipping things that actually work.

I believe engineering is evolving. It's less about writing every line of code and more about designing systems, making the right decisions, and knowing how to turn an idea into something real.

Work

Current

Countant

CTO & Founding Engineer · Remote

July 2025 – Present

RCS AI financial assistant for expense tracking. Architected the entire product as the sole engineer: serverless backend, multi-model AI pipeline, and real-time message processing.

TypeScriptNext.jsExpressPostgreSQLVercel AI SDKClaudeRedis

TextTeddy

Product Engineer (Contract) · Remote

January 2025 – July 2025

Note-taking app for saving and sharing media (movies, books, podcasts) with an AI assistant called Teddy via SMS. Built the landing page, implemented accessibility with font size scaling, fixed bugs, and created UI components.

React NativeNode.jsFirebaseTwilioGenkit

GatherUp

Associate Software Engineer · Remote

December 2021 – January 2025

Reputation management SaaS. Built a modular UI library of 50+ components, integrated visual regression testing, and took on product ownership responsibilities.

ReactTypeScriptStorybookPlaywrightChromatic

EyeRate

Founding Engineer · Elk Grove, CA

April 2020 – November 2021

Reputation management platform. Led product redesign, contributed to monolith-to-microservices migration, and co-led engineering hiring.

Next.jsNode.jsReactMongoDBExpressAWS

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsTailwindReact NativeTanStackStorybookNode.jsExpressPostgreSQLDrizzleMongoDBMongooseVercel AI SDKClaude APIGoogle GeminiGenkitVercelNeonFirebaseUpstash RedisTwilio RCSPlaywrightChromaticJestVitestReact Testing LibraryTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsTailwindReact NativeTanStackStorybookNode.jsExpressPostgreSQLDrizzleMongoDBMongooseVercel AI SDKClaude APIGoogle GeminiGenkitVercelNeonFirebaseUpstash RedisTwilio RCSPlaywrightChromaticJestVitestReact Testing Library