Rob Friesel
Head Of Craft Beer Education
Essex Junction, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolRob Friesel is a seasoned technology leader who blends software engineering, UX design, and education with a cross-disciplinary, liberal-arts mindset. He is currently the Head of Craft Beer Education at Black Flannel Brewing Co., where he applies user-centered approaches to building engaging educational experiences in the craft beverage space. Over ten years of experience include leading the Detection Configuration team at New Relic as a Lead Software Engineer, guiding a seven-person group and delivering UI, API, and Terraform provider features, including a NRQL alert builder that boosted new-user task completion by 10%. Earlier at Dealer.com, he shaped the core platform through UX architecture, design systems, and user research across multiple teams. He earned a BA in Psychology from St. Mary's College of Maryland, and leverages that training to mentor, communicate, and architect pragmatic, human-centered solutions. An active contributor and educator—PhantomJS Cookbook author—Rob also enjoys weekend brewing and sci-fi, underscoring his curiosity and hands-on approach.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
founddrama/bjcp-viewer
Oct 2020 - Dec 2024
An in-browser BJCP style guide viewer. (Mostly to teach myself some React and TypeScript.)
Contributions:7 reviews, 46 PRs, 103 pushes in 4 years 2 months
reactbrowserbjcpstyle-guidemyself
founddrama/a..z
Feb 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 9 months
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