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Frank Fava

Senior Engineer

Cover Letter

18 years building, multi-stack, with the last decade in modern web. Most recent: Senior Software Engineer at SAVR (Stockholm fintech) — three production admin panels, a delta ingestion system that significantly improved performance, and a crypto-trading integration. Comfortable shipping production code in Laravel, Vue, React, Astro — and comfortable owning the architecture call when it matters.

Senior production engineering

At SAVR I spear-headed three admin panels (FilamentPHP + Streamlit), shipped a delta ingestion system that significantly improved performance, and was the primary backend developer on the crypto-trading integration. Production work across Laravel, Vue, React, Astro, HubSpot CMS, WordPress, FilamentPHP, and the SEO/perf plumbing around them.

Tool-builder mindset

Co-built @iGoMoon/hubspot-fields-js — an open-source dev tool that the HubSpot core team adopted into their official Fields.JS docs. Productised my consulting methodology as a Claude Code skill. When repetition hurts, I build the tool.

Technical leadership where it counts

Lead Full-stack Developer at iGoMoon — ran code reviews, retros, hiring panels, and trained junior developers. Part-time CTO at National Auto Service for 2.5+ years — owned architecture, security, and delivery for a platform now used across ~90% of Australia.

AI-native delivery, not as a buzzword

Daily Claude Code + Cursor user. Published two AI-tooling projects — an MVP-workflow skill and a Lovable prompt builder. AI is part of the toolkit, not a magic wand — including knowing when not to use it.

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Skills, Projects & How They Map

The specific skills and projects most relevant to this role, and how each maps to a role requirement.

Featured Skills

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  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • VueJS
  • TypeScript
  • AstroJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • REST API
  • Claude
  • FilamentPHP

Featured Projects

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National Auto Service

Internal system for vehicle asset management built using Laravel and VueJS

The Sales Game

Sales Gamification app (whilst at iGoMoon AB)

HubSpot FieldsJS

Open-source dev tool for HubSpot modules — adopted by the HubSpot core team into their official docs.

Demo Source

AI Skill: Create MVP

Productized my consulting methodology as a Claude Code skill — discovery → planning → implementation, resumable across sessions.

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Certifications

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Transferable Skills

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  • Ability to Lead

    Bridging cross-functional teams and motivating people to do their best work, informed by years of coaching.

  • Project Management

    Goal-based delivery on time and budget — clear goals, accurate estimates, agile iteration, reusable foundations.

  • Team Player

    Adaptability, trust and shared goals — leading developers while collaborating with sales and design under deadline pressure.

  • Coaching Skills

    5+ years guiding individuals and business owners to expand their internal map and drive performance through communication.

How my background maps to what the role asks for

Specific examples — each line connects something I've done to something this role calls for.

Part-time CTO at National Auto Service (~2.5 years)
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Owning architecture in production, not just shipping features

Drove tech strategy, security and delivery for an internal asset-management platform now used across ~90% of Australia.

Designed and built a delta ingestion system at SAVR
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Performance engineering on real production constraints

Re-architected ingestion from full-source pulls to delta — significant performance improvement on a regulated Stockholm fintech.

Co-created HubSpot FieldsJS — adopted by the core HubSpot team
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Tool-builder mindset; reusable engineering across customer projects

Built a dev tool inside another vendor's platform that they ended up referencing in their own docs.

Lead Full-stack Developer at iGoMoon (Stockholm digital agency)
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Technical leadership — code reviews, mentoring, hiring

Trained junior developers, ran retros and code reviews, sat in on hiring rounds, contributed to coding standards.

Production work across Laravel, Vue, React, Astro, FilamentPHP, HubSpot, WordPress
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Adaptable across stacks, not married to a single framework
AI-native workflow: Claude Code + Cursor + published custom skills
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Modern engineering toolkit applied as a real practice

Built and published `ai-skill--create-mvp` and `app--lovable-prompt-builder`. AI as part of the toolkit, not a buzzword.

18 years building — Sydney → Stockholm, agency → freelance → product
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Seasoned, picks up new tech quickly, ships on real deadlines