Brian Pontarelli
Founder And CEO at FusionAuth
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Pontarelli is a serial technology entrepreneur and hands-on software engineer with 14+ years building high-scale, enterprise-facing platforms from the ground up. As Founder and CEO of FusionAuth and CleanSpeak, he blends product leadership with deep technical ownership—designing CIAM and moderation systems that organizations can self-host anywhere, rather than depending on multi-tenant clouds. His career includes architecting distributed systems at Orbitz and leading engineering strategy at startups and consultancies, demonstrating a consistent focus on reliability, security, and pragmatic API-first design. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he pairs a computer engineering foundation from CU Boulder with a knack for shipping developer-friendly infrastructure, and he’s known for turning identity and moderation “plumbing” into differentiating, deployable products.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Arvada West High SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (200)
controller10
python10
api-client10
rsa10
jwt-authentication10
ruby10
infrastructure10
rest-client10
maven10
fusionauth10
netcore10
javascript10
client-library10
go-client10
visualvm10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
savant-build/deb-plugin
Mar 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches, 9 tags in 9 years 3 months
savant-build/savant-core
Feb 2014 - Nov 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 36 commits in 8 years 10 months
main-projectbuild-tool
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