Christian Mathiesen
CTO And Co-founder at Frigade
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Mathiesen is a seasoned technology leader and serial founder with 11 years of professional experience and a deep history of building products from 0 to scale. As CTO and co-founder of Frigade, he combines startup grit with institutional experience, backed by top-tier investors and a track record of earlier ventures including Perform (Techstars Sports ’22). He spent several years at LinkedIn growing a full-stack org from 2 to 23 engineers and shipping multiple 0-to-1 products across Jobs & Recruiter, demonstrating strength in scaling teams and complex product delivery. Christian pairs technical depth (MS in Computer Science, BSc in Software Technology) with business acumen (MBA from Berkeley Haas and YC), bridging engineering, product, and go-to-market strategy. He began coding at age 12 and has repeatedly turned hobby projects into companies, signaling a persistent founder’s curiosity and hands-on engineering mindset. Based in San Francisco, he’s comfortable operating at the intersection of startup fundraising, product strategy, and pragmatic system design.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Brown UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessTechnical University of Denmark
German, Danish, English
Github Skills (59)
javascript10
plausible-analytics10
tooltips10
react10
dashboard9
posthog9
kafka9
matomo9
nodejs9
angular8
clickhouse8
android8
vue8
jwt-authentication8
llm8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FrigadeHQ/javascript
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Frigade is a platform for building high quality product onboarding with React. Product tours, getting started checklists, banners, and much more.
Contributions:836 releases, 77 reviews, 197 commits in 1 month
bannerschecklistfrigadejavascriptonboarding
FrigadeHQ/react-native-onboard
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Delightful onboarding components for React Native
Contributions:82 releases, 4 reviews, 100 commits in 1 month
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