Kristian Freeman
Engineering Manager, Developer Relations
San Marcos, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian Freeman is an engineering manager and developer relations leader with 13 years of experience building developer education, tooling, and communities—most recently scaling Cloudflare’s DevRel programs after joining as their first Developer Advocate. He blends hands-on full-stack and DevOps work (notably contributing to Cloudflare Workers, a globally distributed Apollo GraphQL server, and CI/CD wrangler-actions) with strategic program design to make technical content and tooling accessible at scale. Founder of Byteconf and Freeman Labs, he has a track record of creating free, virtual conference experiences and acquiring/building SaaS products that serve technical audiences. Kristian pairs technical proficiency in documentation, edge computing, and deployment automation with people leadership, routinely partnering with product and engineering teams to improve developer experience. Based in San Marcos, Texas, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a practical focus on measurable developer success.
13 years of coding experience
Western Washington UniversityWhatcom Community College
Github Skills (48)
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api-rest10
hugo10
github-ci10
cloudflare10
javascript10
npm10
algolia10
api-design10
scripting10
restful-api10
build-system10
template-engine10
templater10
cloudflare-workers10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/workers-graphql-server
May 2019 - Oct 2021
🔥Lightning-fast, globally distributed Apollo GraphQL server, deployed at the edge using Cloudflare Workers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 40 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to the development of a GraphQL server using Cloudflare Workers. Their work involved refactoring the codebase, adding GraphiQL, and implementing a Pokemon API integration with Apollo Server. They also addressed CORS issues and added support for both GraphiQL and playground interfaces. Furthermore, the user removed and refactored parts of the original code for better performance.
cloudflareserverlesslightningedgegraphql-server
cloudflare/wrangler-action
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
🧙♀️ easily deploy cloudflare workers applications using wrangler and github actions
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 1 review, 51 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily focused on improving the deployment and configuration of the `wrangler-action` project. Their contributions involved setting up and refining the CI/CD pipeline, particularly using GitHub Actions. They addressed issues related to environment variables, directory structures, and authentication, with the aim of streamlining the build and deployment process for Cloudflare Workers applications. The user also made updates to documentation and introduced versioning and API token support.
zerocloudflare-r2cloudflaredeploymentwrangler
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