Fred Schott is a seasoned software leader and CEO of The Astro Technology Company in San Francisco, with 11 years of experience building fast developer tools and content-driven web frameworks. He blends front-end craftsmanship—hands-on contributions to the Astro framework and docs and work on create-snowpack-app—with backend and release engineering, exemplified by his pika-pack work and Flow-to-TypeScript/ESM migrations in xrpl.js. His career includes senior roles at Ripple and Google Chrome and startup leadership at Box and Worklife, where he designed calendar sync services that processed over 300,000 meetings per hour. Known in open source for improving developer experience (HMR, DX, accessibility and styling) and shipping practical tooling, he pairs product-minded leadership with day-to-day coding across UI, tooling, and infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Walt Whitman High School
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Tufts University
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 197 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Fred implemented core features for the Pika Pack project, including the initial setup and testing of a publish command. They integrated the standard-pkg library for linting and error checking within the build process. Additionally, the user added new publish features and also included necessary changes related to build process for the package publishing.
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Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 912 reviews, 1064 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to front-end development within the Astro framework, focusing on user interface enhancements and component-level changes. Their work included improvements to the navigation and user interface components, as well as updates to the underlying Markdown and CSS files. The changes also involved integrating new components, such as a counter component and the implementation of a new search bar.
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