BK

Brian Krausz

Founder, early engineer, product leader

San Francisco, California

Skills

Web Technologies
Scalability
Software Development
Entrepreneurship
Start-ups
Web Applications
Software Engineering
Java
Programming
Web Development
Computer Science

Education

Work Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff

    2023

2019 - 2023

  • Founder

    2019 - 2023

2014 - 2018

  • Little Bit o' Everything

    2014 - 2018

    Main work was on Stripe Connect. Did significant product infrastructure work on abstractions the API is built on (versioning, parameter validation, static introspection). Also built the original version of Stripe Home.

2012 - 2014

  • Product Engineer

    2012 - 2014

    In March 2012 the GazeHawk team joined Facebook: http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/gazehawk-team-joins-facebook/

2010 - 2012

  • Co-founder

    2010 - 2012

    Founded Y Combinator-funded startup providing eye tracking technology using ordinary webcams. Raised significant seed round, hired 3 employees, ran web engineering and business development, closing significant (6 figure) contracts.

2009 - 2010

  • Software Engineer - New Initiatives

    2009 - 2010

    Worked in small team (< 5 devs) on flights metasearch product. Was lead developer on flights mobile site and worked closely with PMs to build out many innovative features in a Javascript-oriented environment (PHP server-side, about 50/50 code split).

Self Employed

2004 - 2010

  • Consultant

    2004 - 2010

  • WebDev Engineer

    2008 - 2008

    Interned with the Web Development team. Worked on support.mozilla.com, addons.mozilla.org, and Download Day. Completed redesign of primary Firefox support site. Helped orchestrate multi-million user emailing in under 4 hours.

2007 - 2008

  • Technical Yahoo

    2007 - 2008

    Worked with Yahoo Real Estate team as an intern, was retained as a consultant for following school year.

Knowing Point, LLC

2005 - 2007

  • Software/IT Consultant

    2005 - 2007