Summary
Ryan Brienza is a founder and CEO with 15 years of leadership experience building data center and renewable energy ventures, currently steering Zafra, LLC’s expansion in colocation, crypto hosting, and mobile data center manufacturing in upstate New York. He combines hands-on expertise designing, building, and operating crypto mining facilities with a strategic focus on heat recapture and other sustainability-driven technologies. As Vice President of Brienza Corp, he also advances renewable energy initiatives that complement his data center work, creating operational synergies between power, cooling, and compute. Known for pragmatic execution, he blends startup grit with infrastructure-scale thinking and a knack for turning waste heat into value — a less obvious but central thread across his projects.
15 years of coding experience
Beekmantown High School