Jared Friedman
Group Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJared Friedman is a seasoned technology leader and startup mentor based in San Francisco, currently guiding early-stage founders as Group Partner at Y Combinator since 2015. He brings a rare blend of hands-on engineering and strategic product leadership, having co-founded Scribd as CTO and later served as an angel investor for various startups. With an AB in Computer Science and Economics from Harvard, he combines rigorous technical depth with a business-savvy mindset to help teams turn ideas into scalable companies. His career spans roles at Bridgewater Associates and Cycorp, enriching his perspective on data-driven decision making and systems at scale. At YC, he leverages both his technical pedigree and founder experience to accelerate growth, mentorship, and fundraising across a diverse portfolio of startups.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Horace MannA.B., Computer Science, Economics, A.B., Computer Science, Economics at Harvard University
English
Stackoverflow
4,379reputation
44kreached
2answers
2questions
xcode
top-5%
Github Skills (15)
xcode9
ios6
flurry6
devise6
mac-os6
bundler6
bcrypt6
archiving6
ruby-on-rails6
analytics6
usb5
tethering4
linux3
android3
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
snowmaker/omniauth-fitbit
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 month
apiomniauth-strategyauthenticationomniauthstrategy
snowmaker/omniauth-oauth2
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
oauth2omniauthoauthstrategy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.