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Aaron Gerard Franco

CTO/Founder at Nimblechat

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ABOUT ME

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Currently working on Nimblechat, food delivery chatbot! https://www.nimblechat.com Sidepad, game controller: http://bit.ly/sidepad I geek out on distributed infrastructure for high-speed computing at scale and code optimization. Things I've done: Autoscaling streaming media relay systems to hundreds of thousands of listeners on AWS with EC2, Elasticache, RDS, Route53, VPC, IAM and ELB. Developed production applications using React with Redux and React Router. Fully tested and resilient with Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and hosted on S3, EC2. Set up continuous integration environments manually with EC2, Jenkins, and Github. Also, prepared continuous deployment environments using Jenkins, EC2, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline and CodeDeploy. Developed and deployed NodeJS backend systems on IBM Bluemix infrastructure. Built a connected dog collar using MBED, Arduino, Sparkfun, and AT&T technologies. Built a connected door lock with Arduino, NodeJS and AT&T APIs. Build a voice control system for Direct TV using Nuance NLU and AT&T technolgoy. Other Things I Build: Distributed Micro-service with NodeJS Auto-Scaling infrastructure on AWS Software based Bots Hardware based Products Bash Automation NGINX Routers Apache Web Servers Rapid Prototypes Chatbots / bots Automated Systems Languages I use: JavaScript, Java, C, C++, PHP

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)

Japanese, English

EXPERTISE

JavaScript

Node.js

JavaScript

- 15 years experience

I have been building object oriented software with JavaScript for 15 years. I have experience with all forms of the language and available frameworks. I use JavaScript in my production software on a daily basis.

JavaScript Node.js jQuery React

PHP

- 15 years experience

I have built 3 PHP CMS platforms from scratch since the beginning of my career. Though I don't use develop new software with PHP, I maintain a production MVC application on a daily basis.

PHP MySQL Composer php Server side

AWS

- 6 years experience

For the past 4 years I have managed all infrastructure for 4 production applications that consist of 15 servers scaling automatically behind multiple load-balancers. I have been solely responsible for the uptime of this infrastructure.

Amazon vpc Rds Ec2 S3 Autoscaling Infrastructure Deployment Route53 Ssl Load balancing

Arduino

- 6 years experience

I started programming Arduino when it was first released. I developed multiple winning hackathon projects on Arduino. I also have experience integrating Arduino into Linux systems as well as Node.js and PHP serial integrations.

C Serial port Embedded Usb

Java

- 4 years experience

I have built 2 Java applications using Gradle that run as HTTP Client servers sending and receiving data from REST APIs. I have also built numerous Android application features using Java... not entire apps, just features, typically involving API connections and HTTP as well as JSON parsing.

Android Android studio Gradle

- 4 years experience

I developed many IoT prototypes over the past four years on a number of different embedded boards. I have experience with Bluetooth, Beacons, networking, USB serial, GPS, accelerometers, motion sensors, and many more.

Embedded Arduino Linux Bash Freescale Bluetooth Beacon

Cordova

- 4 years experience

I have built multiple Cordova applications since the inception of Cordova. I also connected my applications to the Phonegap Build service. I am familiar with all aspects of Cordova applications and plugin development.

PhoneGap Cordova plugins Ionic

POSTS BY AARON

Chatbots: How to Make a Bot for Messenger From Scratch (Part 1)

This post will guide you through the process of developing your own chatbot for Messenger from scratch.

chatbot bot messenger Node.js

Chatbots: How to Make a Bot for Messenger From Scratch (Part 2)

Saving Context and Keeping track of data.

chatbot bot messenger Mongo

Simple & Understandable Architecture For Test Driven JavaScript

A simple architecture you can use to make JavaScript apps easily tested and maintained.

JavaScript architecture bdd test-driven-development

REVIEWS

Average Rating

5.0

(24 ratings)

Awesome mentor!

Pretty good

Could've been better

Needs improvement

Unsatisfactory

Awesome.

Dee

Mar 24, 2017

Extremely helpful. Solved a series of problems that I was having. Will lean on again.

Jesse

Feb 12, 2017

Aaron is great and knowledgeable. He managed to identify the source of the problem that I was trying to identify for the past week. Unfortunately, we couldn't solve the issue this time. I would still work with him again if needed.

Ron

Feb 3, 2017

Great mentor

Derrick

Jan 31, 2017

Very knowledgable on Redux!

Marcelo

Jan 31, 2017

Thank you for trying to fix our issues, even though we did not resolve in fixing our problem. No one on Codementor can as you are the 3rd expert to try and not be able to fix this ridiculous issue with HTTPS redirect loops.

Moe

Jan 30, 2017

Aaron was a great mentor in helping me walkthrough Wordpress and basic concepts of PHP that I was struggling with. Will most definitely work with him again!

Kedmasterk

Jan 30, 2017

Great friendly and helpfull guy, would recommend it to others. Also fair with pausing the session whe he needs time to investigate some information.

Albert

Jan 27, 2017

Excellent Mentor. Figured out my custom issue quickly and was incredibly friendly and professional. Would Highly recommend.

Kyle

Jan 18, 2017