Fred Wenzel
VP Of Engineering at Higharc
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFred Wenzel is a seasoned engineering executive with 15+ years building high-availability, real-time web systems and leading globally distributed teams that serve millions of users daily. As VP of Engineering he has scaled cross-functional organizations across startups and large tech companies—most recently at Kojo and Airbnb—owning everything from frontend and mobile to infrastructure, security, payments, and AI investments. He combines hands-on engineering chops (rooted in web platforms, service-oriented architectures, and cryptography interest) with a talent for empowering autonomous, high-performing teams and shipping dependable developer tooling. A long-time open source advocate and former Mozilla product and platform lead, he brings deep experience in developer ecosystems and platform design that often surfaces in pragmatic architecture choices. Based in Seattle and trained at Karlsruhe and Carnegie Mellon, he blends rigorous academic background with practical production experience dating back to early Mozilla and systems admin roots. Colleagues describe him as technically curious and unusually effective at aligning engineering craft with business impact.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters degree Information Engineering and Management, Masters degree Information Engineering and Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Graduate Exchange Student Computer Science, Graduate Exchange Student Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityMasters Thesis Computer Science, Masters Thesis Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Latin, Italian, French, English, German
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Github Skills (174)
firefox-webextension10
firefox-addon10
mouse10
webextension10
clipboard10
thunderbird10
keyboard10
audio10
firefox10
ambient10
docker10
vintage10
chrome-extension10
javascript9
todoist9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/mozilla.github.io
Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
The Mozilla Project uses GitHub!
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
mozillajs
mozilla/oldpto
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Mozilla's old PTO app. Though I prefer the term "vintage".
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
vintagewindowsprefermozillapto
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