Ben Brook
Co-Founder, CEO Transcend
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Brook is the co-founder and CEO of Transcend, a New York–based startup that builds privacy infrastructure powering data subject rights for companies like Eventbrite, Vimeo, Robinhood, and 1Password. With 11 years of experience and a Harvard Computer Science background, he combines product-led leadership with technical credibility to deliver compliant, developer-friendly privacy tooling. He’s focused on making complex regulatory and data workflows programmatic and scalable so engineering teams can ship without slow, bespoke processes. Beyond founding Transcend, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to leadership—balancing API design, security, and operations to embed privacy as a platform capability.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (200)
arraybuffer10
json-schema10
windows10
testing10
http10
npm-package10
unzip10
uint8array10
magic-numbers10
saveas10
background-thread10
compression10
linting10
hybrid10
streaming10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bencmbrook/bpm
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
A lightweight beats-per-minute tapper for the Mac status bar.
Contributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 1 PR in 3 years
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transcend-io/penumbra
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Encrypt/decrypt anything in the browser using streams on background threads.
Contributions:1 release, 37 reviews, 105 commits in 3 years 9 months
background-threadwhatwg-streamscryptographyprivacydecrypt-files
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