David Franklin is an experienced engineering manager currently at Stripe since April 2025, with prior roles including engineering manager for FinOps at CloudCheckr from February 2017 to March 2025, where significant achievements include a 5x reduction in infrastructure costs and a 10x performance improvement through a serverless system migration. As a co-founder of Candidly Images, David developed an Instagram-connected marketplace, leading to a community of over 5,000 users within two years of operation. David also served as a senior software engineer and team lead at Brand Networks, managing projects for high-profile clients such as Citigroup and PepsiCo, and began a web development career at NAPCO Media, where notable contributions included a 50% reduction in website load times. David holds a degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology, earned between 2003 and 2007.
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