Brandon Goldman
Partner at Brandon Goldman
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Goldman is a Partner at Lionheart Ventures and a former software engineer turned full-time investor with 14 years of experience building and scaling products from startup to exit. He focuses on AI safety and transformative tech, combining hands-on engineering instincts (early roles at Box and Blockfolio, and founding FreshPay) with a proven track record of strong early-stage bets and dozens of angel investments. As an advisor and volunteer treasurer at the Foresight Institute, he blends governance, crypto security, and grantmaking with strategic investing. Brandon’s background includes shipping front-end and architecture work in open-source projects (notably Jekyll theme improvements) and running a boutique engineering consultancy that delivered 100+ projects—an unusual mix of deep technical craftsmanship and portfolio-level pattern recognition.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped out to focus on startups., Dropped out to focus on startups. at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
jekyll10
nodemon9
css9
nodejs6
npm6
eslint6
mashup6
aggregator6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
le4ker/personal-jekyll-theme
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
{ Personal } Jekyll theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the theme's front-end aspects, including fixing minor issues, refactoring the footer layout, and cleaning up code style. They also updated a JavaScript library for dynamic typing. Further adjustments were made to layout files such as category and post layouts, and the inclusion of category and tag links to improve navigation and display. Additionally, the user corrected a Disqus error by preventing its loading in the local environment and addressed multiple layout issues.
liquidjekylljekyll-themebowtiejekyll-blog
bgoldman/bgoldman.github.io
Feb 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 10 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 9 months
jekylljekyll-theme
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