Channing Pear
Founder at Anvil Labs
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChanning Pear is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact infrastructure and developer-facing systems. He scaled product and operational work at Stripe—leading critical phases of Connect and Treasury—and earlier contributed to open-source distributed tracing at Google used across GCP. Now based in Miami, he runs multiple ventures (Anvil Labs, Hard Tech Miami, American Industrial Dynamism) focused on infrastructure resilience, frontier hardware startups, and revitalizing the U.S. industrial base. He combines hands-on implementation experience—from real-time financial pipelines to core engineering tools—with a knack for organizing communities that bridge startup ecosystems and heavy industry. Known for taking on the riskiest technical challenges and reducing operational toil, he brings both executional rigor and entrepreneurial vision. A fun-but-telling personal touch: he’s equally comfortable proving that pears can be excellent software engineers.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science (Honors) Business Minor, B.S. Computer Science (Honors) Business Minor at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (15)
google-chrome-extension9
google-chrome7
glossary7
vue6
chrome-extension6
documentation5
chrome5
infection5
internet5
testing4
php3
mutation-testing3
mutation3
statistics1
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PearSquirrel/pearsquirrel.github.io
Sep 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 7 months
PearSquirrel/Mouse-Tracker
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:93 commits, 4 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 month
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