Summary
Brian Jenney is a Program Owner and hands-on engineering leader with nine years of experience building full-stack web and AI-driven products from zero to one across startups and enterprise teams in the Bay Area. He blends product-minded engineering—shipping RAG systems, vector DBs, and data pipelines at scale—with developer enablement, having modernized release processes, introduced testing culture, and mentored cohorts and career changers. His work spans front-end frameworks (Next.js, React, TypeScript) to backend services and cloud deployments (GCP, BigQuery, Firebase), and he’s repeatedly been the first hire or founding engineer driving technical strategy. Notably, he scales both systems and people: he built high-throughput TikTok ingest pipelines and codified career ladders and onboarding practices that accelerate new hire impact. Based in San Francisco, Brian runs Parsity’s full-stack AI program to make abstract engineering concepts practical for learners while still shipping production-grade features.
9 years of coding experience