About

Kevin Frei is an Engineering Manager at Facebook with over 25 years of experience in the tech industry. He leads a group of performance analysts and data telemetry experts at Facebook, where he focuses on improving the performance of their flagship applications across mobile and web. Kevin is interested in performance tools and developer productivity, and he is currently hiring for his team. In addition to his professional interests, Kevin enjoys audio and video development, manufacturing his own keyboards, and learning wacky UI stuff to build functional applications. He also does random woodwork, occasionally goes mountain biking, and plays the guitar (rather badly). Kevin's technical specialties include machine code optimization, exception handling, assembly code, iOS performance, and Windows ABI. He is skilled in supporting very senior engineers and geographically distributed teams. Prior to joining Facebook, Kevin worked at Microsoft as a Principal Development Lead for the code generation development team for the .Net Framework (JIT/NGEN) and as a Senior Development Lead for the C++ code generation development team. Kevin holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah, where he studied from 1992 to 1997. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Mobile, Web, iOS, and UI.