Frank Failla

Background

About Frank Failla

Seasoned Solutions Architect with over 25 years of experience designing and delivering web, mobile, and Windows-based software across industries such as Healthcare, News-Media, Radio Broadcasting, Financial Services, and eCommerce. Over his career, he has contributed to multiple Open Source initiatives and successfully brought numerous software products from concept to delivery. Specialize in near real-time, event-driven architectures—leveraging AWS, GCP and other modern technologies—to build highly available systems that maintain low latency under heavy loads. He has deep expertise in highly available / disaster recovery (HA/DR) designs capable of withstanding localized and regional outages, as well as strong proficiency in debugging and performance tuning at every layer of the stack (front end, application, memory, network, database, cloud). Skill set spans AWS-based solutions, distributed applications, application/database design, HA/DR system architecture, security-focused infrastructures, and SysOps automation. Comfortable managing high-profile, high-pressure projects under strict budgets and timelines. Troubleshooting expertise includes application profiling, memory dump analysis, packet capture, and SQL query/index tuning. Holds a Bachelor’s degree from New York University and remains committed to adapting quickly to new technologies and evolving business practices—always focused on delivering innovative, cost-effective, and resilient solutions.