Franz See - Founder, Fanta Tech LLC

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Work Background

Covertech AustraliaChief Technology Officer

Jul. 2023Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

MetaMapSenior Engineering Manager

Nov. 2022 - Jul. 2023Mexico City, Mexico

MetaMapEngineering Manager - Financial Merit Products

Jun. 2021 - Nov. 2022Built the new line of financial KYC products of MetaMap while building the engineering team from scratch. After 6 months, the product was launched. 6 more months after that, we had the largest coverage in LATAM having 35+ banking scrapers and over 1000+ bank statement parsers. And another 6 months after that, we have integrated with 2 credit score providers in Colombia and Mexico. I grew 3 high performing engineering teams of ~15 people. We are able to deploy multiple times a day, has a lead time of change of less than a week, mean time to recover of less than a day, and less than 15% change failure rate

ALICE - Hospitality Operations PlatformEngineering Teamlead - Integrations

Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2021New York, United StatesManaged and maintained 17 integrations of the Alice Platform with multiple external parties like Property Management Systems while managing a team of 3 engineers.

Uploan PHChief Technology Officer

Feb. 2019 - Jul. 2019Makati, PhilippinesHired the first 3 in-house engineers. Transitioned the engineering work from our Indian partner to our new in-house engineering team. Reduced release cycle from every 1-2 months to 2-4 times a week. Managed an organization of 15 engineers, product, qa and data scientists.

eWiseChief Technology Officer

Nov. 2016 - Aug. 2017Makati, PhilippinesWith the Engineering team setup already, I now transition to a more strategic role focusing on technologies and changes in the industry that can make or break the company, and spearheading R&D activities to address the rapidly changing landscape of FinTech and the major changes being pushed by banking regulators like Open Banking and PSD2

eWiseVP of Engineering

Apr. 2014 - Nov. 2016Makati, PhilippinesI was employee #1 in the Philippines and my first task is to transition the engineering activity that was being outsourced to Brazil, Panama, and Australia, and move it to an in house team. That includes understanding the state of engineering when I entered, hiring the in-house team of 20 people, transitioning the clients in Australia, and EU to our new in-house team, setting up an office and all the logistics that comes with it, and build a world class engineering team. We also managed and maintained more than 200+ online banking web and mobile scrapers.

SungardDevelopment Manager for Retail Banking Channel Solutions

Jul. 2011 - Mar. 2014Makati, PhilippinesI handle the 20-man development team located both in Singapore and Manila working on Retail Banking Channel Solutions.

ValueCommerce, PhilsSenior Software Developer

Jan. 2009 - Jul. 2011Conducting research and development on the company's internet ad marketing system. Helped transition the company from a waterfall process (which makes our projects last 4 years) to an agile one (which makes our projects lasts up to 3 months). Maintained and enhanced our systems which has 4TB of data and 1M partner relationships generating 200M page views, 3M clicks, and 100k transactions a day

Orange and Bronze Software LabsSenior Software Engineer

Feb. 2008 - Dec. 2008Gathered & analyzed data, and engineered solutions on a 'legacy' medical collections and billing system using Spring, Struts and Hibernate among others.

Exist GlobalSoftware Engineer

Jul. 2006 - Feb. 2008Contributed to open source projects like Maven, and worked on web development projects by leveraging on open source technologies (such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Lucene) and practices.

DevZuzSoftware Engineer

Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2007Modified a Liferay and created portlets (using Struts, Spring, DWR, and Hibernate), and developed a web app heavy on social features and searching capabilities.