Freeland Abbott
Manager & Technical Lead at Square
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFreeland Abbott is a seasoned senior staff engineer and engineering leader with over a decade of experience building full-stack products, developer-facing platforms, and high-performing teams. He has led and scaled mobile SDKs and payment integrations at Square, growing a market from US-only $200M GPV to $3B GPV while managing up to 15 engineers across multiple teams. His background spans infrastructure and frontend frameworks from Google and Salesforce—contributing to App Engine, GWT, and Aura—and includes production systems in Go and JavaScript at FullStory. Known for combining hands-on engineering with strategic product and org design, he has a strong track record of retaining talent through reorgs, landing strategic accounts, and introducing new workflows like AI-assisted code generation. Based in Austin and open to remote roles, he seeks opportunities that are “bigger than himself” to raise the bar for his people and craft lasting technical and cultural impact. Outside work he juggles, does woodworking and kayaking, hinting at a pragmatic maker’s mindset that informs his engineering and leadership style.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (28)
upi10
reader10
flutter-plugin10
android-api10
sdk10
android-app10
payment10
in-app-purchase10
paystack10
obsolete10
google-pay10
adyen10
square10
react-native9
storekit9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
square/reader-sdk-android-quickstart
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Reader SDK Quick Start Sample Android App
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 9 months
sample-androidandroidsdkandroid-appreader-sdk
fullstorydev/analytics.js-integration-fullstory
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:15 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
analyticsjavascriptfullstoryintegrationssegment
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