Bryan Schwab
Engineering Leader
Building AI products. Scaling engineering teams.
About
25+ years of experience leading engineering teams at companies like Venmo, Meta, Mysten Labs, and Etsy.
Most recently Senior Director at Venmo (200+ org). Currently Co-Founder of Quirence AI, building vertical SaaS with Gemini & Claude. Previously built security infrastructure at Mysten Labs, led blockchain teams at Meta, and architected checkout systems at Etsy that enabled their IPO.
Languages of choice: Python for ML, TypeScript for web, Rust when performance matters.
Also training for the Tokyo Marathon 2026—fundraising for blood cancer research.
Experience
Quirence AI
Co-Founder & Technical Lead
Venmo (PayPal)
Senior Director, Software Development
Mysten Labs
Head of Security Software Engineering
Meta
Engineering Manager — Infrastructure, Security, Blockchain
Etsy
Staff Software Engineer — Checkout + Payments
Skills
Strong
- Payments + Checkout
- Security Infrastructure
- Engineering Leadership
- Platform Architecture
- AI/ML + RAG Pipelines
Solid
- Mobile Development
- Data Engineering
- Frontend Design
- Blockchain + Web3
Growing
- Consumer Product
- Growth + Marketing