Fritz Meissner
Development Team Lead at thoughtbot
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFritz Meissner is a Development Team Lead based in London with 11 years’ experience building distributed, microservices-driven web applications primarily in Ruby and Java. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering with people leadership, having led projects end-to-end at thoughtbot and served as Technical Lead at Prodigy Finance. Comfortable in Agile environments, he has deep experience shaping teams, architectures and delivery for SaaS and fintech systems. Early freelance work as one half of a two‑person engine team for a property management SaaS gave him practical ownership of product and ops beyond coding. Academically grounded with a Distinction Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, he brings a blend of research‑grade rigour and pragmatic delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Awarded with Distinction, Master's Degree, Computer Science, Awarded with Distinction at University of Cape TownWesterford High School
English
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Github Skills (81)
intellisense10
language-server10
asdf9
rails9
emacs8
ruby8
heroku8
react8
ios8
android8
vim7
browserify7
cancancan7
authorization7
react-native7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iftheshoefritz/webula
Apr 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:29 PRs, 202 pushes, 68 branches in 3 years
iftheshoefritz/solargraph-rails
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Solargraph plugin to add awareness of Rails-specific code
Contributions:14 reviews, 113 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 1 month
rails
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