Fred Stutzman
Founder And CEO at Freedom
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolFred Stutzman is a seasoned technology founder and CEO guiding Freedom, a company building the future of focused work for a distraction-prone world, with a track record of taking consumer tech ideas from concept to market. He has built and scaled a remote team spanning 10+ countries and led product, engineering, partnerships, and marketing to deliver a multi-platform, award-winning tool used by millions. Fred brings deep academic underpinnings in Information Science (HCI) and Behavioral Economics from UNC and CMU, with postdoctoral work and published research on privacy, social media, and digital wellbeing. Before Freedom, he co-founded ClaimID, an early social-identity service, and served as Director of Technology at Ibiblio, where he led open-source and distributed projects including Lyceum. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, he combines entrepreneurial grit with rigorous research to identify market needs and build scalable, user-centric software. He is also a competitive masters cyclist, underscoring his disciplined, goal-driven approach.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Behavioral Economics and Digital Privacy, Postdoctoral Scholar, Behavioral Economics and Digital Privacy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityGraduate Certificate in Survey Methodology, Graduate Certificate in Survey Methodology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (29)
chrome-extension10
chrome9
tray-icon8
calendars8
notifyicon8
swift6
tooltips6
credit6
ios6
browser-extension6
uno5
payment5
validating5
browser5
console5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fstutzman/MenuMeters
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
fstutzman/thegreatsuspender
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory
Contributions:2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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