Brian Clifton
VP Of Engineering at Brave Software
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Clifton is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience driving cross-platform browser and hosting products, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Brave where he led the Desktop migration from Muon to Chromium and contributes upstream to Chromium. He combines hands-on engineering—setting up CI/CD pipelines, automating releases, and triaging issues—with people leadership and mentoring to help teams ship reliable software across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Earlier roles at GoDaddy and Intel show deep expertise in APIs, performance optimization, test-driven development, and large-scale CI/CD adoption. Based in Chandler, Arizona, he’s comfortable navigating both open-source collaboration and enterprise delivery, with a practical bent for improving developer workflows and customer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Software Engineering, Bachelors, Software Engineering at University of Advancing TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Edison State Community College
Spanish
Github Skills (18)
elliptic-curve8
browser8
javascript7
rsa7
css7
secp256k17
curve7
ecdh6
ecdsa6
elliptic-curve-cryptography6
brave6
diffie-hellman6
ios6
chromium5
crypto5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brave/browser-ios
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Brave iOS Browser
Contributions:1 push, 1 tag in 9 months
iosbravebrowser
brave/muon
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
[DEPRECATED] Build browsers and browser like applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Contributions:41 releases, 38 tags, 1 comment in 5 months
browserbrowserscssjavascriptweb-browser
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