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Bryan Schwab

Engineering Leader • Redwood City, CA

Engineering leader with 25+ years of experience specializing in infrastructure, security, payments, and product development. Known for building high-performing teams and driving innovation through cross-functional collaboration.

2025 – Present
Co-Founder & Technical Lead

Quirence AI

Shipped a Property Tech platform powered by AI-enabled workflows—automating document analysis, integrated payments, and board-to-resident operations. Architected React/TypeScript and Python stack with Gemini and Claude for RAG-powered workflows. Developed cross-platform mobile apps with Flutter. Designed secure serverless AWS infrastructure with Terraform.

Aug 2024 – Aug 2025
Senior Director, Software Development

Venmo (PayPal)

Led 200+ engineers across iOS, Android, and Web platforms. Managed technical strategy for portfolios processing $300B+ annually. Oversaw Consumer Financial Services, Core P2P payments, and Commerce Platform.

May 2023 – Mar 2024
Head of Security Software Engineering

Mysten Labs

Reduced cloud compute costs by 70% through Snowflake optimization. Integrated on-chain security monitoring and fraud prevention. Established company-wide AI infrastructure strategy.

Oct 2014 – May 2023
Engineering Manager

Meta

Managed 40-50 engineers across global teams in continuous delivery. Led fintech security and Instagram NFT launch. Built Libra L1 blockchain infrastructure and Developer teams. Championed Rust adoption at Meta and Libra Foundation.

Mar 2013 – Jul 2014
Director of Engineering

WePay

Scaled platform for high-performance payment APIs. Improved system reliability and compliance efficiency.

Feb 2011 – Nov 2012
Development Director

Kabam

Led unified payments platform supporting in-game monetization. Conducted early Bitcoin integration R&D.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
Staff Software Engineer

Etsy

Architected checkout and payments systems that enabled IPO.

Apr 2006 – Jan 2008
Senior Software Engineer

Presto.com

Developed recurring billing backend and designed online store checkout. Integrated billing with third-party fulfillment APIs.

Mar 1999 – Mar 2006
Senior Software Engineer

eBay

Led $50M billing migration project and PayPal recurring payment systems.

Mar 1998 – Mar 1999
Software Engineer

Wired

Refactored Hotbot search engine code for performance. Redesigned backend advertising system, contributing to tripling ad revenue.

Jan 1997 – Feb 1998
Application Engineer

NetGravity

Consulted with CNN and Warner Bros on performance optimization. Developed Apache and Netscape web server modules.

AI & GenAI

LLMs (Claude, Gemini, Ollama), RAG pipelines, vector databases, prompt engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, RDS, Cognito, S3), Terraform, serverless architecture, Docker

Core Stack & DevOps

TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, Next.js, Dart, SQL, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Stripe API

B.S. Computer Engineering

Florida Atlantic University

English (native), German (fluent)