Brian Bristol is a tech lead and former founder with eight years of experience building secure, scalable systems and product-focused ML tooling. Currently at Voxel51 he architects visual AI infrastructure and led a Workflows initiative that delivered five customer-facing products generating $1.2M ARR and serving clients like Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft. Prior to that he founded and scaled Pigeon, a YC-backed fintech that moved over $50M across 125,000 users, blending product design with real-world consumer trust problems. His background includes security engineering at Intuit where he built secrets rotation and large-scale automated exploit detection that saved millions, plus early work on big-data pipelines at Pinterest. He bridges product, ML, and design while keeping high engineering standards and modern developer tooling at the center of delivery. Known for shipping pragmatic systems that translate research and security needs into production-ready platforms, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-grade rigor.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Oxford
YC W22 Batch Pigeon Loans Inc., YC W22 Batch Pigeon Loans Inc. at Y Combinator
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science Philosophy at Bowdoin College
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