Robert Brennan
Co-Founder And CEO at OpenHands
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Brennan is a software engineer-turned-founder and executive with nine years of experience building production-grade developer tooling and data science systems, particularly in NLP and Kubernetes-focused platforms. As Co-Founder and CEO of OpenHands and former VP of Product Development at Fairwinds, he grew a Kubernetes security product from prototype to over $1M ARR while leading cross-functional teams and hiring for scale. He combines deep hands-on skills in Go, Python, NodeJS, TensorFlow/Keras and PostgreSQL with practical DevOps expertise (Kubernetes) and a habit of shipping open-source projects and hobby software from web apps to Discord bots. A Columbia-educated technologist, he began his career contributing impactful NLP work at Google (including early QA efforts that scaled to hundreds of millions of queries) and retains a founder’s appetite for coding even while running companies. Colleagues know him for translating customer-facing insights into product architecture and for cultivating inclusive engineering cultures that sustain growth.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringBachelor of Arts Major in Mathematics Concentration in Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts Major in Mathematics Concentration in Linguistics at Columbia College, Columbia University
Spanish, Hungarian, Sign languages
Github Skills (72)
form-validation10
discord-js10
validation10
music10
vee-validate10
active10
vue3-composition-api10
distube10
validations10
discord10
slash10
discord-bot10
validate10
caffeine9
vue-datepicker9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rarDevelopment/pin-bot-dotnet
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A Discord Bot that provides a better experience when pinning messages.
Contributions:11 releases, 30 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 10 months
rarDevelopment/thread-bot-dotnet
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
A Discord bot for maintaining a list of all active threads in the server in a single channel.
Contributions:10 releases, 19 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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