Job Overview

Robert Focke

Co-founder and CTO, Friday Software

Overview

Friday Suite is a cloud based business operation tool, which makes it easier for employees and entrepreneurs to manage inventory, stock ordering and sales. It was a startup I founded with a good friend of mine, Tyrone Simmonds.

We developed an MVP for small to medium size enterprises, targetting an initial market of Southern California. While we achieved initial success, I left the company in 2018 due to personal reasons.

Key Contributions

Development of backend API

Co-founder and CTO, 2016

Delivered a multi-tenant distributed system with strong tennant isolation and data protection.

The system was developed using Python 3 on the backend. Our main web library was Flask, which we used to implement HTTP-based microservices.

Python's MySQL driver and raw, templated queries were used for database interactions in lieu of an ORM.

Integrations with Salesforce, Shipstation, Quickbooks and Shopify were implemented with native Python clients.


AWS infrastructure automation with Boto3 SDK and Chef

Co-founder and CTO, 2016

I developed an in-house solution which relied on the Boto3 SDK and Chef to deploy customer implementations using CloudFormation stacks.

Each stack included a copy of the microservices-based system and an RDS database.

Throughout the project I was also responsible for recruiting and leading other backend developers.