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 (65)
dashboard10
plausible-analytics10
remotestorage10
remote-server10
backend10
javascript10
posthog10
tooltips10
database10
localstorage10
matomo10
kafka10
analytics10
nodejs10
caching10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FrigadeHQ/react-native-onboard
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Delightful onboarding components for React Native
Contributions:82 releases, 4 reviews, 100 commits in 1 month
react-native
FrigadeHQ/trench
Oct 2024 - Apr 2026
Trench — Open-Source Analytics Infrastructure. A single production-ready Docker image built on ClickHouse, Kafka, and Node.js for tracking events. Easily build product analytics dashboards, LLM RAGs, observability platforms, or any other analytics product.
Contributions:21 releases, 12 reviews, 48 PRs in 1 year 5 months
clickhousedocker-imagekafkallmnodejs
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