Summary
Frederick Balzi is a Senior Software Engineer and former technical founder who builds high-impact consumer and enterprise frontends with a pragmatic product mindset. He has led frontend teams and shipped native features at scale—driving performance and engagement improvements for products used by hundreds of thousands of parents and tens of thousands of carers. As co-founder of a travel-search startup he grew traffic to millions of users and exited after proving rapid monetization and media traction, showing a rare ability to turn web prototypes into profitable businesses. He introduced design systems, CI/CD, and Storybook practices to make teams more productive and codebases more maintainable, while mentoring junior engineers through architecture and code reviews. Comfortable working across marketing, finance, and data, he blends technical leadership with commercial intuition and hands-on frontend craft. Based in London with roots in Australia, he pairs a Wharton entrepreneurship background and a Treehouse frontend Techdegree with a bias for shipping measurable outcomes.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Techdegree, Frontend Web development, Techdegree, Frontend Web development at Treehouse
Qualification, Entrepreneurship Specialization, Qualification, Entrepreneurship Specialization at The Wharton School
English, Italian