I'm Frank Valdez, a SUNY Old Westbury Alumni, IT operations manager, and software developer in the New York City area. Day to day, I run the technology behind a two-location grocery operation: point-of-sale and back-office systems, SQL Server data workflows, publishing, dashboards, and the user support that keeps everything moving. Before that, I worked across enterprise IT — identity and access management, device provisioning and large-scale deployments, and help desk operations.
The pattern in my work is the same everywhere: when a process is slow, repetitive, or error-prone, I build software to fix it. That has produced automation scripts, longitudinal data pipelines, internal tools, and web applications, written mostly in Python and JavaScript. The full history is on my experience page, and there's more background about me and the skills I work with.
A few things I've built recently — tools that came out of real workflows, not tutorials.
A 6-day calisthenics and posture program (Mon–Sat, Sun rest) with a music-player-style interface: day playlists, exercises as tracks, and a Now Playing panel that loads each exercise's reference video with Prev/Next navigation.
Daily longitudinal research tracking Gala Supermarkets’ Freeport–Merrick public online catalog, prices, availability, categories, and promotions.
Static job dashboard that normalizes employer-direct Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby feeds into searchable, filterable listings on GitHub Pages.
The games hub collects a dozen playable browser games I've written — 2048, Minesweeper, Sudoku, an Asteroids clone, and more. Each one is a small, self-contained exercise in game loops, input handling, and rendering, playable directly in the browser with nothing to install.