Brendan Cleary is an engineering leader and two-time co-founder with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and 14 years of experience building high-scale, user-facing systems and developer tools. He has led teams responsible for planet-scale identity services at Microsoft serving over a billion users and currently drives compliance engineering and PCI/SoX/SOC automation at Stripe. Brendan combines deep research roots in software comprehension and security with practical product delivery, having built publishing and ingestion platforms that handled hundreds of millions of daily requests. He’s skilled at hiring and scaling engineering organizations—having helped add 150 engineers to Microsoft Dublin—and at translating complex regulatory requirements into automated, observable systems. Behind the leadership roles he still retains a maker’s mindset, having developed analysis tools and eclipse plugins during his Ph.D. and co-founded early companies that delivered nationwide educational platforms.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Limerick
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