Brent Fitzgerald
Principal at Mono Koto
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Fitzgerald is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 16 years of experience turning early product ideas into working systems, currently serving as CTO in Oakland and leading his studio Mono Koto. He blends engineering, design, and research instincts to frame visions, architect systems, and rapidly ship prototypes that validate product and technical primitives. At Braintree and PayPal he led commerce and incubation teams, launched a modern GraphQL API, revamped SDKs and docs, and contributed to widely used mobile payment SDKs like Braintree iOS and PayPal iOS. More recently he built AI-native game creation pipelines at Basejump that scaled to tens of thousands of users, showing strength in both technical depth and delivery at consumer scale. Known for operating in the messy gap between idea and product, he excels at short, high-value engagements—prototypes, architecture, and early technical exploration. Tell him your weird problem and he’ll likely have a practical, production-ready way to make something that shouldn’t exist… work.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Media Lab, MS Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. Symbolic Systems, B.S. Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
ios10
ui-design10
uikit9
debug9
paypal9
payment-integration9
swift8
interface-design7
uid7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
paypal/PayPal-iOS-SDK
Mar 2013 - Oct 2013
Accept credit cards and PayPal in your iOS app
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:16 commits, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily contributed to the iOS mobile application of the PayPal SDK. Their work involved bug fixes, minor enhancements, and updating the library version. They updated the sample app, fixing bugs related to iPad landscape mode and making other improvements. The commits also involved adding BSD license to the sample app files.
creditios-apppayment-servicein-app-purchasepaypal
braintree/braintree_ios
May 2014 - Sep 2020
Braintree SDK for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:349 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily contributed to the development of the Braintree iOS SDK, focusing on improving the user interface and functionality of payment processing flows. Their work involved adding and modifying UI components within the Drop-In UI, renaming classes and methods to reflect changes in the underlying PayPal and card payment processing logic. Furthermore, they updated the SDK's internal Apple Pay implementation and overall flow, enhancing user experience and providing more reliable payment results.
objective-cbraintree-ios-sdkin-app-purchasestorekitbraintree-sdk
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