Jan Früchtl
Head Of Product & Design at Muffin Engineering
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Früchtl is Head of Product & Design with 11 years of experience crafting scalable product experiences across startups and established companies, currently leading strategy and delivery at Cubby from Frankfurt. He blends a systems-thinking design approach with an engineering background to bridge product, design, and development—shipping everything from 0-to-1 portals and payments to complex onboarding flows at Shopify. Jan has a track record of building design foundations: scaling teams, rebuilding design systems with improved architecture and accessibility, and establishing cross-functional practices that reduce friction. He’s comfortable wearing multiple hats—founder of Muffin Engineering while heading product at Cubby—bringing entrepreneurial curiosity to product leadership. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, focused on inclusive, high-fidelity experiences that meet business goals. His hands-on history of design system technical architecture and shipping cross-border commerce UX demonstrates both strategic vision and executional rigor.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Media Design, Interactive Media Design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
English
Github Skills (21)
photo9
eleventy8
site-generator7
static-site7
documentation5
jekyll5
podcast5
player4
youtube4
audio4
jamstack4
react4
music4
vue3
audio-player3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sprachnachrichten/sprachnachrichten.fm
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
The website of the German podcast Sprachnachrichten.
Contributions:23 reviews, 70 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 10 months
jekyllpodcast
CouchTimes/couchtim.es
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 4 pushes in 9 months
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