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Fred Wenzel

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VP of Engineering
Washington, United States

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  • Higharc
    VP of Engineering
    Higharc
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)
    At Higharc, we are working with the most innovative home builders in the industry to transform the way they design, sell, and build homes.
  • Kojo
    VP of Engineering
    Kojo
    Jan 2022 - May 2025 (3 years 5 months)
    Kojo is building a SaaS enabled marketplace for commercial construction materials, transforming how billions of dollars of construction material is being purchased in the US.

    As technology executive reporting to the CEO, I was accountable for leading and building out Kojo's globally distributed, world class engineering talent across all aspects of mobile, frontend, backend, infrastructure, APIs, payments, data, quality assurance, and security, as well as Kojo's extensive investment in bleeding edge AI technology to build the next generation procurement platform for the construction industry.
  • Airbnb
    Senior Engineering Leader, Global Community Support
    Airbnb
    Oct 2015 - Jan 2022 (6 years 4 months)
    Senior engineering leader for Airbnb's high-availability software platform for global community support agents, including support cases / CRM, communication channels, as well as high-stakes specialties concerning insurance claims and urgent safety issues. Distributed organization of 90+ FTE and 25+ contractors, across US West Coast, Ireland, India, and China.

    Founding member and site lead for the PDX engineering office, built up the team from 2 to dozens of people across engineering and cross-functional roles. Relocated to Seattle after Covid office closure.
  • Mozilla Corporation
    Senior Engineering Manager, Apps Engineering
    Mozilla Corporation
    Jan 2012 - Oct 2015 (3 years 10 months)
    12+ engineers within Mozilla’s Firefox OS group, advancing the developer space for Open Web Apps on mobile. Managed partnerships to promote the Web as the preferred platform for cross-device apps.
  • Mozilla Corporation
    Web Development Manager, Rapid Development
    Mozilla Corporation
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years 1 month)
    8+ engineers on Rapid Web Development, building and maintaining tech projects at massive global scale like mozilla.org and firefox.com.
  • Mozilla Corporation
    Senior Software Engineer
    Mozilla Corporation
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 (1 year 1 month)
    Developed scalable and secure web applications for various parts of the Mozilla project, most notably addons.mozilla.org, input.mozilla.org, as well as webtools for developers and localizers.

    Lead developer on various projects, with responsibility for software architecture and technology choices. Led the initial release of Mozilla's Python/Django-based coherent web development platform called "Playdoh" by vetting, combining and integrating various components into a scalable and secure web application template.
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Researcher
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)
    Research in "Transaction Management Challenges For Federated, Workflow-Based SOA Applications" at CMU's Software Engineering Institute.

    The work focused on the challenges occurring when transactional guarantees are sought for long-running, cross-organizational service-based workflows, where a number of basic assumptions necessary for ACID compliance cannot be ensured.
  • Mozilla Corporation
    Software Development Contractor
    Mozilla Corporation
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2009 (2 years 1 month)
    Software development for various Mozilla projects, most notably addons.mozilla.org and the Bouncer project (Mozilla's download load balancer, e.g. powering the Firefox download button).
  • Mozilla Corporation
    Software Development Intern
    Mozilla Corporation
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)
    Software development on a complete rewrite of addons.mozilla.org to empower the emerging Firefox extension ecosystem for Firefox 2. As first SDE intern at the company, reported directly to the VP of Engineering, and had the pleasure of learning from some of the early browser pioneers in an autonomous and rapidly moving environment.
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    Student Software Engineer
    Oregon State University Open Source Lab
    Oct 2005 - Sep 2006 (1 year)
    Co-led the creation of version 3.0 of Maintain (maintainproject.osuosl.org), a web-based DHCP and DNS management tool for medium to large-scale computer networks. Most notable use of the project was the management of OSU's entire campus network, along with different companies and educational institutions.
  • Z
    Web Server Admin
    Zentrum für Angewandte Rechtswissenschaften
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007 (4 years 1 month)
    Administration of the web server of the University of Karlsruhe's law institute. Developed and maintained its PHP/MySQL based website providing support for teachers and students alike.
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    Sysadmin
    Schwarzwaldwohnstift Lichtental GmbH
    Jan 1997 - Jan 2009 (12 years 1 month)
    Administration for company servers with various services, e.g. file serving, WWW, mail, database, LDAP and fax service. Corporate firewall, IP and mail routing. Backup service.
    Developing and maintaining an in-house software solution for the company's needs, including address management, billing, time tracking, decision support.
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  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Masters Thesis, Computer Science
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)
    Masters Thesis topic: "Transaction Management Challenges For Federated, Workflow-Based SOA Applications". Parts of the work were published and presented at the workshop "Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems" (PESOS) at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) in Vancouver, 2009.
    Thesis was graded with 1.0 (approx. equiv. in US grading: A+).
  • Oregon State University
    Graduate Exchange Student, Computer Science
    Oregon State University
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2006 (1 year 1 month)
    Focuses of studies: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, End-User Programming, Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
    Trumpet player in OSU Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Wind Orchestra.
    Overall GPA 3.91
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT
    Masters degree, Information Engineering and Management
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT
    Jan 2002 - Jan 2009 (7 years 1 month)
    Degree program consisting of equal parts economics and computer science, in addition to German law.
    Graduated with a final, overall grade of 1.7 (approx. equiv. in US grading: A-).
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    Strengths and weaknesses of WS-BusinessActivity for cross-organizational SOA applications
    IEEE ICSE Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service Oriented Systems May
    In traditional database-driven applications, transactional integrity is a well-established concept. In order to apply these techniques to SOA-based applications, along with the capability to perform long-running business activities, the WS-BusinessActivity standard was developed. This standard does not specifically address cross-organizational use, however, when an enterprise decides to integrate its SOA-based system with their business partners' services, the ability to span long-running business activities across organizational boundaries becomes crucial. This paper describes an experiment performed to assess the suitability of WS-BusinessActivity for cross-organizational use and identifies several strengths and weaknesses that became app
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