Will Franklin

Head of Engineering bei CORRECTIV

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Experience

  • Head of Engineering at CORRECTIV
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    Responsible for building and managing Correctiv's new tech team, and the organisation's overall technical strategy.

  • The Bristol Cable (City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom · On-site)
    • Operations Lead
      Apr 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Responsible for managing the organisation's finances, including budgeting, forecasting. Also supported on most non-journalistic aspects of the Cable, including strategy development, membership campaign development, organisational development, HR administration

    • Coordinator
      May 2018 - Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Held a variety of roles and responsibilities during this time, including managing our technical infrastructure, supporting on membership growth, managing our relationship with our board of directors, and leading on several initiatives aimed at professionalising the Cable's internal structures and decision making systems. I also developed an open source membership system, which was subsequently jointly developed with Correctiv and has become the beabee project.

  • Lead Developer at CORRECTIV
    Dec 2020 - May 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Lead Developer of beabee.io, a community engagement system for newsrooms

  • Technical Specialist at The Syria Campaign
    Feb 2017 - Apr 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Developed campaign websites and maintained The Syria Campaign's technical infrastructure, including donation platforms, web server hosting and deployment infrastructure

  • Software Developer at Freelance
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    A variety of freelance projects, mostly developing frontends and backends for websites for various clients.