# Brian Krausz

> Founder, early engineer, product leader

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/briankrausz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stainless
Jan 2025 – Present
Come help me make APIs better!

### Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Built much of Claude.ai for initial launch
- Led infrastructure migration to consolidate internal and public APIs onto same infrastructure
- Handled vendor negotiations for initial launch and scaling of public product: selected and secured infrastructure, fraud prevention, and dev tooling providers
- Designed initial fraud pipeline to detect malicious prompts and users
- Led work to make the API open-access, including a major rebuild of billing, rate limiting, and internal tooling

### Founder @ Kenchi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Little Bit o' Everything @ Stripe
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Built and re-launched Stripe Connect, one of their most successful business lines. Ran the team for 3 years.
- Owned the new hire technical onboarding program, organizing classes and structure for hundreds of employees.
- Ran API review for most of my tenure, overseeing the review and process for every public API change.
- Rebuilt Stripe's internal API abstractions for better DX around versioning, parameter validation, static introspection, and self-documentation. Successfully encouraged teams to shard migration of every API endpoint to this new framework.
- Built, along with a design partner, the original version of Stripe Home.

### Product Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Menlo Park
In March 2012 the GazeHawk team joined Facebook: http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/gazehawk-team-joins-facebook/

### Co-founder @ GazeHawk, Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 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.

### Software Engineer - New Initiatives @ TripAdvisor
Jan 2009 – Jan 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).

### Consultant @ Self Employed
Jan 2004 – Jan 2010

### WebDev Engineer @ Mozilla Corporation
Jan 2008 – Jan 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.

### Technical Yahoo @ Yahoo!
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Worked with Yahoo Real Estate team as an intern, was retained as a consultant for following school year.

### Software/IT Consultant @ Knowing Point, LLC
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007

### Website Developer @ Cerini & Associates, LLP
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006

### Volunteer Web Developer @ ICON Science Fiction, Inc.
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006


## Education
### Y Combinator

### BS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bkrausz
- Website: http://gazehawk.com
- Website: http://briankrausz.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05