Brian Kennish
CTO at Massive
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Kennish is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 15+ years building consumer-facing apps and privacy-first products, currently leading Massive to reinvent how creators and platforms monetize without ads or paywalls. He has launched 21 independent apps across mobile and browser platforms—seven with over 1M active users and 20M+ total installs—earning widespread press and platform recognition from Forbes to Apple and Google. Former CEO of Disconnect and Rocketship and an early Google engineer, he pairs product vision with deep hands-on engineering: notable open-source work includes front-end contributions to the widely used Adblock Fast extension. A frequent speaker on privacy, security, and app development, he blends a developer’s pragmatism with operator experience scaling products and teams. Based in Nashville, he describes himself playfully as a “vibe-coding repairman,” signaling a pragmatic, user-focused approach to solving persistent web problems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Brown UniversityMamaroneck High School
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
html10
opera9
chrome-extension9
google-visualization9
google-chrome-extension9
google-chrome9
frontend8
web-frontend8
css8
api6
privacy6
passwords6
browser6
canvas6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rocketshipapps/adblockfast
Aug 2015 - May 2022
Adblock Fast is a faster ad blocker for Windows, Android, iOS, Chrome, and Opera.
Role in this project:
Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 1 review, 296 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on developing UI components and implementing the first-run page for the Adblock Fast extension within the Opera/Chrome environments. Their work involved creating the styling and markup for the first-run experience, which included images and font integration, and adapting existing code to enhance the overall user interface. Additionally, the user modified the background script to include the launch of the first-run page.
adblockandroidchromeioswindows
disconnectme/twdc
Dec 2011 - Dec 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 2 years
browsertrackingwebpagesfirefox-addontwitter
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