Brian Krausz
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Member of Technical Staff
2023 - Current
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.
Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.
Founder
2019 - 2023
Kenchi transforms manual processes into simple automation that helps teams work smarter.
Little Bit o' Everything
2014 - 2018
Main work was on Stripe Connect. Did significant product infrastructure work on abstractions the API is built on (versioning, parameter validation, static introspection). Also built the original version of Stripe Home.
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.
Product Engineer
2012 - 2014
In March 2012 the GazeHawk team joined Facebook: http://www.gazehawk.com/blog/gazehawk-team-joins-facebook/
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Co-founder
2010 - 2012
Founded Y Combinator-funded startup providing eye tracking technology using ordinary webcams. Raised significant seed round, hired 3 employees, ran web engineering and business development, closing significant (6 figure) contracts.
GazeHawk provides users with professional eye-tracking services using webcams in their own homes.
Software Engineer - New Initiatives
2009 - 2010
Worked in small team (< 5 devs) on flights metasearch product. Was lead developer on flights mobile site and worked closely with PMs to build out many innovative features in a Javascript-oriented environment (PHP server-side, about 50/50 code split).
TripConnect is an online service that allows people to get travel advice from people they know.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Masthead Venture Partners.
Consultant
2004 - 2010
WebDev Engineer
2008 - 2008
Interned with the Web Development team. Worked on support.mozilla.com, addons.mozilla.org, and Download Day. Completed redesign of primary Firefox support site. Helped orchestrate multi-million user emailing in under 4 hours.
“You Should Probably” is a Firefox extension that will remind you to do something useful with your life whenever you visit your favorite
Technical Yahoo
2007 - 2008
Worked with Yahoo Real Estate team as an intern, was retained as a consultant for following school year.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Software/IT Consultant
2005 - 2007
Education
BS
2006 - 2009