About Francisco Frechina
I'm the CTO at Runator, the social network for runners, which allows you to share your running experiences, feelings, runs automatically and enjoy running in a social way, regardless what you use to track your runs.
In Runator we use the following technologies:
- PHP + Symfony
- PHPUnit
- Redis + ElasticSearch
- Bootstrap
- HTML5
- CSS3
- MongoDB
- JavaScript
- NodeJS + LoopBack
- Angular
- Android
- iOs
- Swift
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Swarm
- Amazon AWS
- Azure
- Ubuntu
As a CTO I:
- Get "Tech" in order: Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets
- Help build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for our product. As validation of idea happen with acquisition of users and "customers", product may undergo transformation on required features set and Market needs. I make the roadmap to achieve those "vanity goals" for our company, and I try to successfully tweak an approach with changing needs.
- Architecture Practices: Our environment changes very fast. I need to make sure that best practices are defined and followed by our team. I must be a garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality.
- Methodology: With time, help build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing our product.
- Connecting Business Requirements with activity: Given that, I must be an executive Tech leader, I understand the business opportunities which Tech Product could create.
- Should be able to empathize with my "audience" and bring Insights to build a pragmatic approach– which, translates into better cost-benefit analysis.
- Product Innovation through Research and continuous improvement