About Me

Hey there! I’m Frank Corso. By day, I am a data scientist and engineer helping companies consolidate scattered data and uncover actionable insights. By night, I’m an indie software founder and game developer with a passion for biology.

The Beginning

My journey in technology began in 2009 when I created a humble Xbox 360 game called “A Game of Hockey” – basically a clone of Pong but with 4 paddles. I released it in the Xbox Live Indie Games program that was relatively new at the time. Despite its simplicity (and bugs!), this little game showed me how fun it was to create software.

I recently recreated this game and uploaded it to itch.io if you want to play it yourself to see how awful it was 😅.

The Journey

For some reason, I was convinced that my game needed a website. So, I had looked around on how to make a website and stumbled upon WordPress, which was a few years old at the time, and thought I’d use that for my site.

As I ran my site (which I don’t think anyone beside family ever went to), some friends and family members asked if I could also help with their websites. As I started building more complex sites, I had to learn some of the PHP/JS to make them work. This is when I started my first company, My Local Webstop, which was a small web development agency.

While running the agency, I built a few small WordPress plugins. One, Quiz And Survey Master, took off and became my main focus for several years. It was used on over 20,000 websites before it was acquired in 2019.

During the later years of working on that product, I began working more with surveys and data to both make the product better and also to help my clients understand their data better.

After selling Quiz And Survey Master, I moved on to working on a SaaS product called SiteAlert, which monitored websites for security and performance issues. This was used by over 10,000 websites when it was acquired in 2021.

Most recently, I served as Head of Engineering at Podchaser. There, I built data pipelines and systems that handled hundreds of millions of podcast episodes and led a team that grew to 12 engineers and data scientists. The company was acquired in 2022.

Today, I use this experience—scaling products, managing massive datasets, and leading engineering teams—to help businesses build their own data infrastructure and machine learning models.

When I’m not analyzing data or building software, I enjoy working on hobby projects like my small video games at Whivio Studios. I’m constantly learning and exploring new technologies, which keeps me energized and current in a rapidly evolving field.

Outside of Work

I believe in continuous learning, recently completing both my Associate’s degree, which I focused on biotechnology foundational classes, and Udacity’s Deep Learning Nanodegree. I’ve also earned AWS, Snowflake, and Terraform certifications that reflect my commitment to cloud architecture and infrastructure management. This interdisciplinary approach enriches my data work with perspectives from multiple domains.

I also love learning new things and have a wide range of hobbies including playing my violin, training in Taekwondo, and assisting in biological research.