Kristian Freed
Founding Engineer at Slingshot AI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian Freed is a London-based technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building scalable software across startups and global tech orgs. As Founding Engineer at Slingshot AI and formerly CTO at Elder HQ and Pariti, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership, architecture, and team building. At Elder, he grew the engineering function from 5 to 140 engineers, bootstrapped the marketplace and bespoke matching engine, and helped take the company from seed to a successful Series B, contributing to a £35M+ annual revenue. His background spans low-level optimization in C++, Kubernetes-driven cloud platforms, CQRS, and a track record in delivering multi-year, high-impact initiatives—from trading systems at Trayport and investment banking projects at Lab49 to Google’s travel ads tooling. He blends deep CS foundations from Chalmers University of Technology with ongoing explorations in data science and even quantum computing, always aiming to use technology to solve meaningful problems and improve lives.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc+MSc, Computer Science, BSc+MSc, Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (200)
authentication10
auth10
browser10
rest10
jwt10
stateless10
fetch10
nodejs10
nextjs10
oauth10
react10
async9
javascript9
nuxt-auth9
faker9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SoftMemes/booker
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
Pariti-io/debezium
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DBZ.
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 day
sqlchange-data-capturedatabasesdata-capturedatabase
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