Fred Schott
CEO at The Astro Technology Company
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Schott is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building developer tools and web frameworks, currently serving as CEO of The Astro Technology Company in San Francisco. He combines product-level vision with hands-on engineering, having led projects at Google Chrome, Ripple, and Box and scaled backend systems to handle hundreds of thousands of meetings per hour. Fred is a prolific open-source contributor and author of tooling like create-snowpack-app and pika-pack, and has helped modernize libraries such as xrpl.js by migrating Flow to TypeScript and ESM. His work spans full-stack engineering—from core build and publish pipelines to front-end UX and CSS—showing a knack for shipping pragmatic, well-tested features. Known for reducing operational failures and improving developer experience, he blends startup grit with enterprise discipline. Outside product leadership, he often surfaces in ecosystem-level improvements that make other engineers’ workflows faster and safer.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Walt Whitman High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Tufts University
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
npm10
css10
polymer10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
publish10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
astrojs10
html10
nodejs10
build-process10
typescripts10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FredKSchott/pika-pack
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
📦⚡️ Build your npm package using composable plugins. https://www.pika.dev/blog/introducing-pika-pack/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
resolvepikanpm-packagejavascriptnodejs
withastro/astro
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions: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.
islandisland-architectureastrobrowserfaster
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