Jonathan Fritz
Technical Director II at Maxis Studios - EA
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJonathan Fritz is a technical director and backend systems leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native services for live games and enterprise products. He currently leads hosted services for an upcoming Sims title at Maxis/EA, owning roadmaps, architecture, and cross-studio partnerships while still shipping code in Kotlin/Java on GCP/AWS and Kubernetes. His greenfield UGC platform evolved to power The Sims 4 Gallery for tens of millions of players and now supports cloud saves, multiplayer, wallets, and moderation tooling he helped design. Jonathan blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and trust-and-safety expertise, having independently researched moderation best practices and driven studio-wide conversations about safety. He also contributes to open-source projects like Mattermost, bringing front-end UX improvements and practical engineering discipline from enterprise chat to game services.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
webapp10
react10
react-native9
interface-design9
graphical-user-interface9
html8
collaboration8
go8
css8
quicktime6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 70 PRs, 136 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on front-end development within the Mattermost platform. Their contributions involved modifying existing UI components, such as user lists and channel member dropdowns, to display user information more comprehensively. They also implemented changes to email notification settings and corrected a double-click issue on the signup page. Further, they addressed an issue that resulted in search results not showing when the search was loading and added functionality for showing loading messages on certain team operations.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
mattermost/mattermost-webapp
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Archived web app of Mattermost. Moved to the monorepo: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 43 PRs, 62 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Mattermost web app. Their contributions include modifying how user lists display information by including full names, usernames, and nicknames. They also addressed issues such as the double-clicking of the "Create Account" button and improving the visual presentation and behavior of search results. Further work included the integration of display settings in the channel member dropdown and system console page for the email notification settings.
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