Seth Friedman
Engineering Manager at Stripe
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarSeth Friedman is an Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading mobile and backend engineering efforts in the New York City area, currently heading the Elements Mobile team at Stripe. He blends hands-on development with team leadership, focusing on shipping reliable, performant mobile experiences and developer-facing tooling. An active open-source contributor, Seth has improved the CocoaPods dependency manager by refactoring core components and adding features like parallel pod downloads to boost efficiency and maintainability. He’s comfortable operating across the stack, turning complex engineering challenges into pragmatic solutions while fostering strong collaboration. Colleagues know him for attention to developer ergonomics and for bringing production-grade rigor to both infrastructure and client-facing code.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
dependency-manager10
objective-c10
package-manager-tool10
package-manager10
cocoapods9
swift9
ruby8
build-tools6
automations6
ruby-on-rails6
build-engine6
automation6
buildr6
actionmailer6
contactform6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the CocoaPods dependency manager, focusing on improving its internal structure and functionality. Their work involved refactoring code, such as extracting components from larger classes, adding features like parallel pod downloads, and introducing related configuration options. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the efficiency, maintainability, and performance of the dependency management process.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
VandyApps/vandyvans-ios
Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:210 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
swiftios
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