Resume
Bryan Schwab
Engineering Leader • Redwood City, CA
Summary
Engineering leader (ex-Venmo, ex-Meta) and current founder. 25+ years modernizing regulated, mission-critical financial systems. Now running a GenAI-first, agentic SDLC daily at Quirence AI with Claude Code, Codex, Grok/xAI, and a customized OpenClaw deployment, plus internal tooling so autonomous coding agents collaborate effectively with the team.
Experience
Co-Founder & Technical Lead
Quirence AI
Running a GenAI-first, agentic SDLC end to end with Claude Code, Codex, Grok/xAI, and a customized OpenClaw deployment, plus internal tooling so autonomous coding agents collaborate with the team. Built an agentic commerce platform on a multi-service GCP stack (GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pulumi IaC) with Vertex AI Gemini for vision-driven browser automation and hybrid BM25 + vector search over a ~370k product catalog. Stripe Issuing for virtual cards, with early prototyping of MPP (Machine Payments Protocol) for agent-initiated payments. Currently in closed beta.
Senior Director, Software Development
Venmo (PayPal)
Led a 200+ engineer Product Engineering organization across iOS, Android, and Web. Managed Directors and Senior Managers through ambiguity, regulatory scrutiny, and platform modernization, while sustaining delivery on portfolios processing $300B+ in annual payment volume. Directed Consumer Financial Services (Credit Card, Debit Card, Teen banking), Core P2P, Search, Social Feed, and the "Pay with Venmo" checkout.
Head of Security Software Engineering
Mysten Labs
Designed and implemented company-wide AI infrastructure. Built data pipelines in Snowflake that cut annual cloud compute costs by 70%+. Integrated on-chain data into the security data lake for real-time monitoring, scam/fraud prevention, and automated threat detection.
Engineering Manager
Meta
Managed managers and 40–50 engineers across MPK, NYC, London, and TLV to ship the Facebook family of apps to billions of users. Built the Libra L1 blockchain infrastructure under regulatory scrutiny and founded the Developer Infrastructure and Ecosystem teams. Directed Meta Fintech security including the Instagram NFT launch. Drove Rust adoption inside Meta and helped establish the Rust Foundation.
Director of Engineering
WePay
Led WePay's core platform engineering. APIs and SDKs handled large payment volumes for third-party developers. Overhauled the security posture to streamline PCI auditing and reduce compliance turnaround.
Development Director
Kabam
Designed and migrated to a studio-wide payments system supporting in-game micro transactions, bundles, and promotions. Ran early R&D and proof of concepts for Bitcoin integration.
Staff Software Engineer
Etsy
Built the initial checkout and payments platform across multiple generations. The revenue it generated was a major factor in Etsy's IPO. Led architectural migrations (Postgres → MySQL) and performance work to resolve scaling bottlenecks during hypergrowth.
Senior Software Engineer
Presto.com
Developed recurring billing backend and designed online store checkout. Integrated billing with third-party fulfillment APIs.
Senior Software Engineer
eBay
Led the $50M Global Billing migration and integrated eBay's billing system with PayPal. Handled $130M+ in annual transactions on a regulated, mission-critical legacy stack.
Software Engineer
Wired
Refactored Hotbot search engine code for performance. Redesigned backend advertising system, contributing to tripling ad revenue.
Application Engineer
NetGravity
Consulted with CNN and Warner Bros on performance optimization. Developed Apache and Netscape web server modules.
Skills
AI & GenAI
LLMs (Gemini, Claude, Gemma, Ollama), Vertex AI, agentic browser automation (computer use), hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vector), embeddings, LLM guardrails, prompt engineering
AI Development Tooling
Claude Code, Codex, Grok/xAI, OpenClaw, MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Cloud Infrastructure
GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Datastream, Firebase Hosting, Artifact Registry), AWS (Cognito), Pulumi, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
Observability
VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Grafana, Prometheus, stackdriver-exporter
Core Stack & DevOps
TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, Flutter/Dart, FastAPI, Express, SQL, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Stripe (Issuing + Payments)
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Languages
English (native), German (fluent)