Bryan Helmig co-founded Zapier and serves as its CTO, building automation products, APIs and AI tools. He writes about engineering leadership and infrastructure and invests in developer companies including Braintrust.

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Bryan Helmig co-founded Zapier and serves as its CTO, building automation products, APIs and AI tools. He writes about engineering leadership and infrastructure and invests in developer companies including Braintrust.

Career

Bryan Helmig studied at University of Missouri (BSBA, Finance (2011)).

Co-founder and CTO at Zapier until Present
Product Dev/Manager at Veterans United Home Loans until 2012Built products connecting Veterans United with veterans through social media.

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Wade FosterCo-founder and CEO at Zapier
First Cosign
Our CTO Bryan Helmig is a great example. He doesn't manage a roadmap, he just builds products.
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zapier.com

The CTO Journey at a Small Startup

How his role evolved as Zapier grew from three founders to an engineering organization.

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ycombinator.com

Building APIs for AI

In this 2023 interview with Garry Tan, he explains the product experiments and API design choices behind Zapier’s Natural Language Actions.

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zapier.com

Scaling Zapier to Automate Billions of Tasks

His 2016 account of the team’s workflow engine, multi-step data model and decisions to scale with familiar infrastructure.

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