Francis Genet

Engineering Manager San Francisco Bay Area

Technical LeadershipPlatform EngineeringDistributed SystemsProduct Engineering

14
Years building
backend & data platforms

Summary

Driver profile

Engineering manager with 14 years building backend and data platforms, now at Sentry. At Airbyte I led the platform team that owns the core data infrastructure used by thousands of customers. Before moving into management I was a staff engineer at Airbyte and Mozart Data, where I shipped product end to end, from connectors and data pipelines to billing, and owned the observability and SOC 2 work behind it. Earlier I built APIs and backend systems at Amino, Clover Health and Guidebook.

Experience

Stints · most recent first
[Start month] 2026
Present

Sentry[Role]

  • [Scope and impact at Sentry — to be written]
Nov 2025
[End month] 2026

AirbyteEngineering Manager

  • Led a platform team owning core data infrastructure services used by thousands of customers, ensuring reliability and scalability across distributed systems
  • Owned planning, prioritization, roadmap sequencing, and cross-team dependency management
  • Guided architectural decisions for distributed systems handling large-scale batch data processing on AWS and GCP
  • Drove observability practices (Datadog monitoring, dashboards, alerting) and operational readiness across platform services
  • Restructured repository governance and engineering standards to improve cross-team collaboration
  • Supported hiring, onboarding, and engineer career development through regular 1:1s and feedback
Oct 2024
Nov 2025

AirbyteStaff Software Engineer

  • Built the GCS Data Lake destination connector end-to-end (Apache Iceberg), spanning CDK infrastructure, implementation, testing, and documentation
  • Resolved a critical orchestrator hang affecting all customers: multi-threaded debugging and fix across the replication pipeline
  • Led multi-region dataplane expansion (Iowa/GCP), implementing Datadog monitors and Terraform infrastructure with spot instance support
  • Implemented dynamic log-level control via feature flags and built replication logging to cloud storage, improving observability and incident response
  • Enhanced Iceberg CDK infrastructure ensuring correctness and data integrity across multiple downstream connectors
Feb 2021
Sep 2024

Mozart DataStaff Software Engineer

  • Led and mentored a team of 3–4 engineers; defined project scope, timelines, and priorities aligned with business objectives
  • Designed real-time and batch data pipelines for usage tracking and billing, ensuring data integrity at scale
  • Owned security and compliance: pentest reviews, vulnerability remediation, SOC 2 audit readiness (Vanta)
  • Implemented observability infrastructure (Datadog) for platform reliability and rapid incident response
  • Built an automated billing system (Stripe/Retool), a GCP Marketplace integration, and a GitHub version control integration
Jul 2020
Feb 2021

AminoSenior Software Engineer

  • Built RESTful APIs (Django/DRF) for a healthcare transparency platform, ensuring secure data delivery in a regulated health-data environment
Jun 2018
May 2020San Francisco, CA

Clover HealthSoftware Engineer III

  • Built backend systems in a regulated healthcare insurance environment, partnering with compliance teams on data integrity and regulatory adherence
  • Tech lead of the API discipline: set code standards and recruitment rubrics, and tackled tech debt across teams
Aug 2014
May 2018San Francisco, CA

Guidebook Inc.Software Engineer

  • Led platform re-architecture (“Space” project); built metrics pipelines, APIs (Django/DRF), and async workflows (Redis, Celery)
Nov 2012
Jul 2014San Francisco, CA

2600hzSoftware Engineer

  • Built provisioning systems, monitoring tools, and a data aggregation platform (Python/Django)

Skills

Setup sheet
  • LeadershipTeam leadership and mentoring, roadmap planning and prioritization, hiring and onboarding, 1:1s and career development, engineering standards
  • PlatformAWS, GCP, Terraform, Datadog, multi-region deployment, observability and incident response
  • DataApache Iceberg, batch and real-time pipelines, Airbyte CDK, connectors
  • BackendPython, Django, Django REST Framework, REST APIs, Redis, Celery
  • ProductUsage tracking and billing (Stripe, Retool), GCP Marketplace integration, GitHub integration
  • SecuritySOC 2 (Vanta), pentest remediation, regulated health data

Education

SUPINFO International University
Institute of Information Technology

M.Sc. Computer Science, minor in ManagementOct 2010 – Apr 2012
B.Sc. Computer ScienceNov 2007 – Oct 2010

Languages

  • FrenchNative
  • EnglishFull professional

Interests

Paddock
  • Spec Miata racing, SCCA member
  • Motorcycles, BMW R 1250 GS
  • Virtual motorsports, 24-hour endurance events