# Clare Politano Brodeur > Director of Product at Hylo - Coordination infrastructure for community resilience Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/clarepolitanobrodeur I’m a community organizer, permaculture designer, and technologist who weaves digital tools with regenerative practice to support bioregional coordination and collective stewardship. For over a decade, I’ve been building, guiding, and growing purpose-driven communities that use technology to collaborate, decide, and care for one another in new ways. As a Core Steward at Terran Collective, I help create the social and technical infrastructure for a regenerative future. This includes my work on Hylo, a prosocial coordination platform for purpose-driven groups. At Hylo, I lead partnerships, community, and product development. I partner closely with organizers, cooperatives, nonprofits, and networks to co-design technology that aligns with their culture, governance, and real-world impact. Because the challenges they face are rarely purely technical, my work spans product strategy, community design, participatory process, and governance. I help organizations: - Turn sleepy online spaces into vibrant, high-trust, high-engagement communities - Bring clarity to complex product situations and align teams around shared direction - Translate community needs into clear, buildable product requirements - Design participation pathways that invite shared stewardship rather than passive use - Align technology, governance, and culture so platforms actually strengthen relationships Beyond digital systems, I am a land steward deeply committed to place-based organizing and regenerative agriculture. I am a certified ProSocial facilitator and a practitioner of Sociocracy (Dynamic Governance) for collaborative decision-making. GitHub: https://github.com/cpolitano ## Work Experience ### Director of Product Management @ Hylo Jan 2021 – Present ### Organizer @ Turtle Island Bioregional Congress Jan 2025 – Present | Cascadia Local organizers, visionaries, and cultural stewards are gathering this September for the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress (TIBC11) to grow the movement for community resilience. You’re invited! From September 15–19 in Vernonia, Oregon (1 hour NW of Portland) place-based leaders from across Turtle Island to nurture the bioregional movement, share skills and tactics, and align on strategy. Through councils, workshops, storytelling, arts, and celebration, we will build relationships while gaining practical tools and making plans to advance regeneration, resilience, and stewardship rooted in place. ### Software Engineer @ Terran Collective Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco, CA Product management & engineering Hylo in React, GraphQL, Postgres ### Principal @ The BioFi Project Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 The BioFi Project is a collective supporting bioregions to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities that connect financial resources and regenerators. I am supporting the project with stewardship of the community of practice. ### Software Engineer @ Regen Network Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | planet earth Regen Network is building an ecological data commons that rewards farmers for the assets they're already managing. We're harnessing geospatial data and remote sensing, machine learning, and blockchain to reinvent the economics of agriculture by internalizing the value of ecosystem services. ### Co-Founder @ PayCheck Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Washington, DC PayCheck (www.paycheck.fyi), is a free online platform for salaried employees to expose pay inequality by sharing salary and demographic information anonymously with their coworkers. We also provide resources for companies to evaluate and improve pay equity within their organizations. ### Software Engineer @ Social Tables Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Washington, DC As a software engineer at Social Tables, I served as the Technical Lead of an engineering squad building apps and services with Node.js, Restify, MySQL, RethinkDB, and React/Redux. ### Creative Technologist @ iStrategyLabs Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Washington, DC As Creative Technologist at ISL, I worked with a world-class dev team building web apps for clients like Kroger, Sheetz, Milagro Tequila, and more. ### Developer Apprentice @ iStrategyLabs Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Washington, D.C. Built a series of apps for internal use at ISL to improve my skills and learn about ISL's technology stacks. I started off with an Angular-based quiz game about the company, including a leaderboard, new question submission, and data persisted to Parse. Next I built an Angular app for social media monitoring of client posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Finally, I built a Node Webkit app with a Google Maps visualization to search for Instagram influencers based on location, hashtag, or account followed. ### Online Community Manager @ Center for Science in the Public Interest Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 I developed and executed strategic social media and digital initiatives, including email advocacy and online marketing, in addition to maintaining CSPI's web pages with HTML and CSS. ### Communications Coordinator @ Center for Science in the Public Interest Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Washington, DC Conducted media relations and outreach, edited and authored press releases, blog posts, and emails, developed and deployed daily social media content, and updated content on cspinet.org. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, Architecture University of Virginia ### Web Development Immersive General Assembly ### Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/clarepolitano - Website: https://github.com/cpolitano - Website: http://clarepolitano.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/clarepolitanobrodeur JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/clarepolitanobrodeur/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01