Brian R. Bondy
Co-founder & CTO, Brave Software
Co-founder and CTO of Brave Software and a member of its board. Since 2015, I have helped build Brave from its first browser prototypes into a privacy-focused browser and product company serving more than 120 million monthly active users. My work combines company and engineering leadership with hands-on architecture and development across browsers, security, operating systems, networking, privacy, AI, and web applications. Before Brave, I built Firefox platform technology at Mozilla, worked as a development lead at Khan Academy, and co-founded software businesses.
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Experience
Brave Software
Co-founder and CTO
Co-founded Brave and helped take it from an initial browser concept to a global privacy product company, while remaining deeply involved in architecture and implementation.
- Co-founded the company with Brendan Eich and helped define and build the original product: privacy-first browsers for desktop, iOS, and Android, with blocking and privacy-preserving advertising built in.
- Led architecture and hands-on development through three major desktop foundations: the early Gecko/Graphene prototype, the shipped Muon/Electron implementation, and Brave Core, a maintainable Chromium fork that improved extension support, upgrade velocity, reliability, retention, and growth.
- Built and led engineering teams as the company scaled; managed as many as 60 employees and contractors, approximately one-third of the company, while recruiting and mentoring engineers.
- Led architecture and development across the browser, Brave Wallet, and Brave Leo. The broader platform grew to include Shields, native ad blocking, Tor windows, WebTorrent, IPFS, component updates, privacy-preserving ads, and desktop/mobile code sharing.
- Remain hands-on in the codebase across product architecture, technical investigations, features, fixes, developer infrastructure, and autonomous coding-agent tooling.
Khan Academy
Developer Lead
Built learning environments and platform capabilities across Khan Academy's computer-science product, including a fully client-side SQL environment and the HTML/CSS environment.
- Created a fully client-side environment for learning SQL using SQLite compiled to asm.js with Emscripten and sql.js; a complete Khan Academy SQL course was built around the environment.
- Helped generalize the computer-science platform beyond JavaScript, co-authored its HTML/CSS environment, and led peer project evaluations and LearnStorm, a three-month Bay Area math competition.
- Designed and implemented a Gecko-based end-to-end testing system used during deployments, and independently built the Khan Academy Firefox OS app as a side project.
Mozilla
Senior Firefox Platform Engineer
Worked across Firefox platform code, with particular depth in Windows integration, browser updates, graphics, performance, and the Windows 8 browser.
- Led development of the Mozilla Maintenance Service for secure, silent Firefox updates on Windows and delivered updater security improvements across service and non-service paths.
- Developed the Windows 8 Metro Firefox browser across initial platform work, graphics integration, file picking, contracts, browser registration, installation, updates, and dozens of supporting changes.
- Became a module peer for Firefox, Toolkit, ImageLib, and Widget:Win32; contributed hundreds of patches across C++, JavaScript, and Python, and reviewed and mentored other contributors.
VisionWorks Solutions Inc.
Co-founder and Software Developer
Co-founded and built commercial Windows products in backup, storage, encryption, networking, and security; ROBOBAK and the VisionWorks product portfolio were acquired in 2011.
- Built ROBOBAK enterprise backup software, several hundred thousand lines of code spanning deduplication, journaling, indexing, archiving, replication, and agentless backup, before its acquisition by KineticD.
- Created Vision Backup, a 130,000+ line C++ product that sold more than 3,000 copies, and File Access Manager, a filesystem filter driver with more than 50,000 outstanding licenses.
- Managed developers and custom software projects while building COM SDKs, encrypted-drive technology, Windows drivers, anti-spam/phishing network filters, and backup infrastructure.
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Technical Depth
Languages
C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, Python, C, C#, SQL
Browser & platform architecture
Chromium, Gecko, WebKit, desktop and mobile browsers, multi-process sandboxing, extensions, installers, secure updates, OS integration
Systems, security & networking
Privacy protections, native blocking, Windows drivers and services, cryptography, storage and backup, protocol development including TCP/UDP, HTTP(S), and FTP/FTPS/SFTP
AI & agents
Browser-integrated AI, privacy-preserving assistants, autonomous coding agents, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn
Web & application architecture
React/Redux, Node, FastAPI, Google App Engine, REST, SQL/SQLite, distributed services
Decentralized systems & wallets
Multi-chain wallet architecture, self-custody key management, peer-to-peer protocols, IPFS, Tor, WebTorrent, privacy-preserving ads and rewards
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Education & Interests
University of Waterloo
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science
August 2000–April 2005 · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Outside work
Ultrarunning, including completed events up to 250 miles · Piano and guitar · Reading and lifelong learning · Strength training and martial arts; black belt (Shodan), Meibukan Goju-Ryu karate
Brian R. Bondy · Co-founder & CTO, Brave Software · brianbondy.com/resume