f-cto is a specialized solo firm dedicated to helping startups reach their full potential

Brenden Grace

Sure I have over two decades of experience building technologies and teams, but more impressively, my Github account is ID: 1242.

Experienced Tech Operator and Engineer

Founder and Principal

f-cto

Chief Technology Officer

Rialtic

Chief Technology Officer

Demyst

Vice President Engineering

Vistaly

Director of Engineering, Serving

Collective Media

Principal Engineer, Serving

Collective Media

Senior Engineer

Personifi, Intelli7, TrustedCS

Highlights

Technology

Successfully architected and scaled a real-time bidder to handle 200,000 rps  with a p99 of 80 ms.

Architected and deployed highly available, globally distributed APIs that supported critical use cases for firms like HSBC, Klarna, SCB, and Farmers Insurance.

Designed ML-driven data pipelines that targeted hundreds of millions of profiles for online ad targeting.

Leadership

Lead through the challenging transition of growing a technology group from 50 to over 100 team members.

Successfully executed on developing and maintaining SOC2 and HITRUST compliance for a number of companies dealing with sensitive data customer data (PII, PHI, etc.)

Growth

Took a pre-market fit startup from zero to $20 million in ARR.

Scaled a pre-IPO adtech network from $35 million to $180 million (S1 filed).

Helped to raise and close multiple venture rounds, from seed to Series B.

Open source

Ruby eventmachine driver for MongoDB

100k

downloads

em-mongo

Patents

Method and system for classifying text

Method and System For Behavioral Classification

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