Frederick Townes
Startup Mentor & Executive Coach at Various Startups
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFrederick Townes is a seasoned startup mentor and executive coach with nearly two decades of experience building product-driven engineering teams and web platforms across enterprises and startups. He founded and led multiple companies—most notably W3 EDGE and Placester—and created W3 Total Cache, an early open-source performance framework that helped power tens of millions of sites. Frederick bridges technology, product strategy, and go-to-market execution, having served as CEO, CPO, CTO, and board member for companies in SaaS, EdTech, PropTech, and FinTech. He mentors early-stage founders on architecture, product marketing, and team formation, and brings a practical bias for measurable user experience and business outcomes. Based in Austin, he combines hands-on engineering roots with a track record of scaling product organizations and driving social-impact initiatives like Resilient Coders.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Boston University
Stackoverflow
26reputation
86reached
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Github Skills (8)
caching6
wordpress6
browser-cache6
trellis3
advanced-custom-fields3
wordpress-plugin3
php2
intranet1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
Auctollo/google-sitemap-generator
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 36 PRs in 3 years 8 months
balehu/Documentation
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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