Brian Platz
Chief Executive Officer at Fluree, PBC
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Platz is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO who co-founded Fluree, an open-source, ledger-backed semantic graph database that makes blockchain-style immutability and temporal data models accessible to enterprise applications. With over two decades of startup leadership, he previously co-founded SilkRoad Technology, scaling it to thousands of customers and hundreds of employees across a global footprint. Brian combines product and operational mastery—having run R&D, services, support and marketing—with a track record of founding influential web platforms like A List Apart. He serves on multiple boards advising HR and learning platforms, bringing practical experience in SaaS, data architecture, and talent systems. Based in Greensboro, NC, he applies a builder’s mentality to bridge emerging distributed-ledger ideas with pragmatic enterprise needs.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
51reputation
927reached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (74)
sql10
database10
ledger9
babashka9
epl8
edn8
http-kit8
transit7
verify7
bidirectional7
leiningen7
ajax7
facebook7
rum7
autocomplete6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fluree/fluree.cli
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Terminal-based tool that allows users to verify Fluree ledger files, read consensus state, and more.
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
flureeconsensusverifyread-filesledger
fluree/json-ld
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 reviews, 56 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 2 months
json-ldclojurejsonedn
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