Robert Fruchtman
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Fruchtman is a full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building fast, user-focused web products from frontend to backend. Currently at Stripe and formerly a senior engineer and tech lead at Reddit, he has architected high-impact frontend initiatives—like a Chrome-based JS test runner and a custom Webpack plugin—that reduced test times and JavaScript payloads substantially. He combines a frontend specialization with strong backend chops, shipping features that improved performance, revenue, and developer workflows while also driving i18n migrations and CI optimizations. Robert has a track record of cross-team leadership, organizing knowledge-sharing forums and coordinating product, design, and infrastructure partners to deliver measurable results. Early work ranges from scalable scientific computing and satellite ground-station tooling to consumer-facing startups, reflecting a habit of adapting tools and languages to solve domain-specific problems. He also publishes open-source projects, including a community-used music mashup app, demonstrating a long-standing interest in practical, shareable engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Arizona State University
English
Github Skills (132)
styled-components10
gevent10
python-client10
javascript10
reddit10
typescript10
type-check9
linux9
python9
css-in-js9
dockerfile9
docker-image9
plugin9
webpack-plugin9
typechecker9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fruchtose/muxamp
May 2012 - Dec 2013
Contributions:420 commits in 1 year 6 months
fruchtose/reddit-mobile
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 1 month
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