Product & Engineering Leader
I'm a product person, a programmer, and an engineering leader. I love creating scalable web apps with amazingly great UI/UX. I'm interested in startups and entrepreneurship, and especially B2B SaaS. After nearly 7 years working in Silicon Valley, I'm now back in Florida where remote work is my jam.
I’m currently VP of Engineering & Product at Close, where I get to help build an amazing remote team, a product people love, and grow our SaaS business to be something great.
Previously I spent two years leading the Engineering team at Quizlet, building study tools that millions of students relied upon. I’ve also interned at Google and Yahoo! as a software engineer, and did lots of freelance website design while at the University of Florida.
I write in JavaScript, CSS, Python, and PHP. I also can speak to databases and make servers do stuff. I like working on scalability, performance, design, and great user experiences.
In recent years I’ve been doing less blogging here, but writing more on Twitter.
When I have a bit more to say, I’ve found Typefully as a really nice writing tool. They also have a “Profile” view that rolls up tweet threads into blog post form. My latest posts are here:
https://typefully.com/philfreo
Enjoy!
I took my first sabbatical this year, after Close started (generously) offering fully paid 4-week sabbaticals for all employees after 5 years. Recently I spoke with our CEO…
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