Frank Perez — Principal Architect

01 / Work Experience

2020 — Now

Boca Raton, FL · Remote

Principal Architect2023 — Present

Own corporate technical strategy and the architectural vision, partnering with leaders across sales, finance, marketing, and product to drive the company growth plan.
Serve as the primary technical voice for corporate — internally and with key partners, prospects, and customers.
Advance engineering capabilities across software, data, AI, cloud, UI, quality, and security.
Lead a team of developers, owning Honorlock's desktop (Electron) and cross-platform mobile (Flutter) applications end to end.
Own the SDKs and public APIs customers use to integrate with the Honorlock platform.

Software Architect2022 — 2023

Partnered with product to plan and ship new products and features while maintaining existing systems.
Drove infrastructure initiatives — framework and language version upgrades, and automation with Terraform.

Senior Software Engineer2020 — 2022

Architected a Laravel-based service API and built a proof of concept on AWS ECS and Fargate.
Implemented localization across applications, and a secure way to use multi-account AWS services without static credentials.
Ran department-wide mob programming sessions to share knowledge and introduce new technologies.

2016 — 2020

England, UK · Remote

Senior Software Engineer

Built and maintained the company eCommerce platform in Laravel and Vue.
Integrated Amazon MWS, Wayfair, and eBay to automate product creation, stock updates, and order management across multiple countries and accounts.
Built a custom ERP tracking finances, profit, revenue predictions, stock projections, purchase orders, and KPIs.
Developed a warehouse management system to optimize picking and shipping, plus a Vue Native Android app for warehouse teams.
Automated repricing based on popularity, stock, and competition; ran infrastructure on DigitalOcean and Laravel Forge with automated AWS S3 backups.

2014 — 2017

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Co-Founder & Technical Lead

Co-founded and architected a multi-tenant SaaS platform built for scale.
Integrated third-party systems to streamline customers' inventory management and marketing.

2007 — 2016

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Built custom eCommerce solutions with Laravel and CodeIgniter, plus WooCommerce, Kryptronic, and Shopify builds.
Mentored junior developers and interns; led hiring, estimates, and weekly customer planning.
Managed and secured Red Hat and Ubuntu servers with backups, patching, and benchmark testing; set up VOIP with Trixbox and FreePBX.
Wrote bash tooling to monitor and block malicious requests, and an internal uptime monitor for customer sites.

2006 — 2007

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Full Stack Web Developer

Developed and maintained customer eCommerce websites in PHP and Perl.
Converted designs from Photoshop to W3C-compliant responsive HTML & CSS and integrated them into shopping carts.
Configured Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl stacks and implemented SEO and marketing best practices.

2011

GNU Linux Instructor

Peer 2 Peer University · Remote

2010

Webmaster

GNU Project · Remote

2005 — 2006

Network / Computer Technician

Medley Police Department · Medley, FL

2004 — 2005

Web Developer

Cypress Bay High School · Weston, FL

Computer Engineering, A.A.

Broward College · Fort Lauderdale, FL

2011