Tobias Fried
Senior Product Engineer at LiveKit
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolTobias Fried is a Staff Product Engineer with nine years of experience building delightful web products and developer tools, currently shaping real-time systems at LiveKit from Denver. A React evangelist and Typescript convert, he blends front-end finesse with product sensibility to ship polished, user-focused interfaces and libraries. He is a visible open-source maintainer—contributing key features and UI work to the widely used Phosphor Icons React library and its homepage, including animated UX and flexible icon weights. Tobias pairs hands-on engineering with product thinking, often refactoring for extensibility and writing tests to keep OSS reliable. His background spans full-stack projects, mobile apps, and even logistics-heavy production work in film, which informs his pragmatic approach to fast-paced, cross-functional collaboration. He favors simple, well-tested solutions that scale from hobby tools to production systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Montclair High SchoolAndroid Developer Nanodegree Computer Science, Android Developer Nanodegree Computer Science at UdacityBachelor of Arts Psychology, Bachelor of Arts Psychology at Skidmore College
Italian, French
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Github Skills (27)
react-components10
ui-components10
component-development10
typescript10
user-interface10
react-component10
svg10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
recoiljs10
react10
colors9
jes9
javascript9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
phosphor-icons/react
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A flexible icon family for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 11 reviews, 129 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tobias contributed to the development of a React-based icon library. Their primary focus involved implementing new icon components, refactoring existing components, and adding features like different weight styles (thin, light, regular, bold, fill, duotone) and mirroring capabilities. They also wrote tests to verify the existence and naming of the icons. Their work improved the library's functionality, styling, and overall usability.
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phosphor-icons/homepage
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The homepage of Phosphor Icons, a flexible icon family for everyone
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 13 reviews, 317 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tobias's primary contribution involved developing the user interface for the Phosphor Icons homepage, focusing on React and Recoil for state management. They implemented core UI components, including the IconSearch and IconGrid, while also integrating the use of Framer Motion for animated transitions. Furthermore, they appear to have worked on refactoring the project to better support various features such as a style selection component using a third-party library.
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