Summary
Brian 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