Stephanie Friedman
Investor at Apollo GraphQL
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolStephanie Friedman is an investor, advisor, and GTM executive with 20 years of experience scaling enterprise software, SaaS, developer tools and collaboration platforms from zero to market leadership. She built Xamarin’s global sales and customer success organization from 0 to nearly $50M ARR and 100-person teams, then led global mobile app dev strategy at Microsoft after acquisition. Now an active angel and seed investor and board member (including Apollo GraphQL), she advises startups across Netlify, Tailscale, Zeplin and others, often helping translate developer-focused product into scalable sales motions. Fluent in five languages and having lived across Europe, the U.S. and Paraguay, she combines deep international business acumen with hands-on operational rigor. Less obvious: she contributes to developer documentation and engineering repos like Apollo GraphQL, blending GTM expertise with technical empathy for dev-centric products. Passionate about early-stage companies, travel and creative pursuits, she brings founder-level operational instincts to investor and advisory roles.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Maitrise, International Business, Maitrise, International Business at Aix-Marseille University, FranceMasters, International Business, Masters, International Business at Universität Passau
English, Spanish, Italian, French, German
Github Skills (32)
kotlin10
markdown10
javascript10
technical-writing10
typescript10
apollo-server10
wpgraphql10
markdown-it10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
apollo10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/fullstack-tutorial
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
🚀 The Apollo platform tutorial app
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 47 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie contributed to the Apollo GraphQL full-stack tutorial by making various improvements across the project. Their work included updating server configurations, such as incorporating environment variables and switching to the Apollo Sandbox. They also updated code generation definitions and upgraded the backend server to Apollo Server 3. Finally, they synced generated types between the client and server, ensuring code consistency throughout the application.
reactjavascriptapollo-servergraphqlapollo-client
apollographql/federation
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:262 reviews, 262 commits, 295 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephanie primarily contributed to the repository by updating and expanding the documentation. Their work includes adding content for new features like uplink, OpenTelemetry integration, and federation 2, as well as revising existing documentation on topics such as error codes and hints. They also reorganized content, improved formatting, and added navigation links to enhance the user experience. This involved modifying configuration files and generating documentation articles.
graph-datascaleapollo-federationgatewayfederation
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