Royce Branning
Cofounder, CEO at clearspace
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoyce Branning is a Bay Area–born software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building consumer products and startups, currently cofounder and CEO at clearspace where he’s focused on injecting intentionality into how people use technology. A Notre Dame-trained engineer, he rose through Quicken from intern to Senior Software Engineer and helped ship the #1 Budgeting App of 2021—an outcome that prioritized paid, value-driven user experiences over attention capture. Earlier entrepreneurial roots include cofounding Closetclicks, a social commerce experiment, and hands-on research and teaching roles during college that shaped his user- and service-oriented approach. He combines product instincts with full‑stack engineering craft, spanning mobile and cloud platforms hinted at by his GitHub emoji shorthand for web, mobile, and media interests. Based in San Francisco and a Y Combinator alum, Royce mixes startup grit with a deliberate philosophy about designing technology that respects attention. Colleagues would note he builds for outcomes customers willingly pay for, not just metrics that scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMenlo-Atherton High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English
Github Skills (36)
netflix9
java9
spring-boot9
gateway9
dynamic-routing9
ribbon8
spring8
netflix-zuul8
feign8
api-gateway8
netflix-eureka8
security8
monitoring8
kubernetes7
golang7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
roycebranning/roycebranning.github.io
Oct 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
roycebranning/icecloud
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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