Summary
Brian Dunagan is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 17 years of experience building and scaling software products, currently serving as CTO of Genfin after leading engineering at StorCentric and a prior exit from his co-owned backup software company, Retrospect. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Objective-C/Cocoa, Postgres, and cloud storage architectures (AWS, GCS, Azure, Backblaze, MinIO) with a track record of translating business needs into reliable engineering outcomes. Comfortable managing distributed teams of up to 20 and cross-functional groups, he has moved between senior individual contributor roles and executive leadership while driving product-focused engineering. An MIT-trained engineer, he maintains a habit of deep-dives and technical writing on his blog, signaling a continual curiosity and preference for pragmatic, well-documented solutions.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Computer Science, M.Eng. Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology