Dimitri Fridland
AI Czar at Boilerplate Studio
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDimitri Fridland is an experienced founder and engineering leader with 16 years building developer-first products and production-grade systems from startups to scale-ups. As co-founder/CTO of Walnut and now creator of Frontman, he focuses on developer tools that bridge AI agents and live UIs—letting agents interact visually with running apps rather than just code. He has a strong track record in scaling remote engineering teams, achieving enterprise reliability and rapid deployment cadences, and has founded or led multiple startups through acquisition. Based in Berlin, Dimitri combines deep systems and frontend expertise (Next.js, Astro, Vite ecosystems) with an open-source mindset—Frontman is Apache 2.0 and BYOK during beta. He also advises and invests in early AI startups, bringing pragmatic product sensibility to bleeding-edge tooling.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The Open UniversityFellow at Collective #2, Fellow at Collective #2 at CollectiveBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (200)
rescript10
api10
react-apollo10
user-management10
altjs10
docker-compose10
octopus10
javascript10
migration10
golang10
elixir10
docker10
docker-image10
vscode-plugin9
okta9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
BlueHotDog/assignment2
May 2010 - Jun 2010
Contributions:104 commits in 1 month
BlueHotDog/buff
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Like NPM, but for protobuffers
Contributions:147 commits, 7 PRs, 223 pushes in 3 months
npm-likenpmprotobuf
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