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Frank Fava

Solutions Architect

A Solutions Architect's job is to translate a customer's messy reality into a system that ships, scales, and survives the next renewal. That sits exactly at the intersection of three things I've spent my career doing: designing systems, leading the build, and selling the value.

Architectural ownership, repeatedly

Part-time CTO for ~2.5 years at National Auto Service, spear-headed three admin panels and a high-throughput data-ingestion delta system at SAVR, and led the integration that put crypto trading into a Stockholm fintech. I've owned the call, not just the diff.

Pre-sales credibility, not just engineering

Ran a digital agency for ~6 years (160+ projects, 1.1M+ SEK billed via Cool Company on a single recent stretch). I've defended technical proposals against bigger competitors, talked customers out of bad ideas, and stood by what I shipped.

Multi-stack, not married to one

Production work across Laravel, Vue, React, Astro, HubSpot CMS, WordPress, FilamentPHP, Streamlit, and the SEO/perf plumbing around them. I co-built a HubSpot dev tool that the core HubSpot team adopted into their own docs — that's the kind of cross-vendor depth a good SA needs.

A translator for non-technical stakeholders

Five years as a professional coach before I was a developer, plus years of agency selling. I can sit in a room with a CFO and a tech lead and leave with both of them pointed at the same target.

This page is curated for the Solutions Architect role specifically — pitch above, then the relevant skills, projects and CV-to-requirement mapping below.

Full Version of this CV

Please note, this is only a summarised version of my full CV. For the full picture anyway, the complete CV is one click away.

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

  • Laravel
  • React
  • AstroJS
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Claude
  • REST API
  • PostgreSQL

Featured Projects

National Auto Service

Internal system for vehicle asset management built using Laravel and VueJS

Frank Fava CV

A comprehensive static online CV using Astro, AlpineJS and TailwindCSS

Demo Source

AI Skill: Create MVP

A Claude Code skill that runs an interactive MVP workflow — requirements → plan → build, with resume support.

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Lovable Prompt Builder

A web tool that helps craft structured prompts for the Lovable AI app builder.

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Featured Certifications

CV → Role Requirement

The translator: each CV fact connects to something this role actually asks for.

Part-time CTO at National Auto Service (~2.5 years)
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Owning architecture under real-world constraints

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

Spear-headed 3 admin panels + data-ingestion delta system at SAVR
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Designing systems for performance and operability, not just features

Built operability tools for a regulated Stockholm fintech and re-architected ingestion to significantly improve performance.

Co-created HubSpot FieldJs — adopted by the core HubSpot team
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Cross-vendor / partner-ecosystem credibility

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

Owned a digital agency (FLIC Sites, 160+ projects)
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Pre-sales experience defending architecture to non-technical buyers

Sold technical work to skeptical SMB owners against larger competitors.

Production work across Laravel, Vue, React, Astro, FilamentPHP, HubSpot, WordPress
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Solution-shaping that isn't married to a single stack
Lead Full-stack Developer at iGoMoon (Stockholm)
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Mentoring, code reviews, and complex-project delivery in an agency context
5 years as a professional coach + ongoing freelance customer work
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Translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders