Brennen Ryder
Head Of Product & Engineering at Thrive Capital
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrennen Ryder is a Head of Product & Engineering based in New York with eight years of hands-on experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and high-growth companies. He has held senior engineering roles at Stripe and co-founded Adit Yourself before moving into leadership positions at Hired and multiple startups, bringing both product sensibility and deep execution experience. Known for shipping customer-facing systems early in his career (including multi-location systems for Escape Chambers), he blends full-stack development chops with product strategy to turn ambiguous problems into delivered features. At Thrive Capital he now oversees product and engineering direction, leveraging prior experience scaling teams and systems at Stripe. Brennen’s background shows a pattern of joining early-stage efforts and rapidly stepping into technical leadership, and he pairs that with a BS in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin–Madison. Colleagues would describe him as a builder who prefers shipping working products to debating architecture in the abstract.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (12)
realtime-api9
openai-api8
nodejs6
typescript6
multi-agent6
openai6
npm5
esx5
javascript5
sql4
driver3
fxserver3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
btryder/heroku-nodejs-pnpm-mono-buildpack
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
A fork of Heroku's official Node.js buildpack with better support for pnpm monorepos
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 days
btryder/whelan-kruk-fam
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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