Brian Bristol

Brian Bristol is the founder and CTO of Pigeon Loans. Prior to starting Pigeon Loans, Brian worked as a software engineer at Intuit from August 2019 to September 2021. At Intuit, Brian worked on both an offensive security team codenamed War Machine and a team dedicated to sensitive data encryption called Intuit Data Protection Services.

During their time at Intuit, Brian spearheaded software development from all avenues. Brian worked with various backend, security, front end, and cloud technologies to bolster the security frameworks that protect and run Intuit on a day to day basis.

Brian helped build and scale War Machine's automated testing framework from 0 to over 1000 running concurrent exploit finding mechanisms which in turned saved Intuit $1.7 million+ in pre-emptively patched vulnerabilities. Additionally, Brian developed world class APIs and abstraction interfaces within Intuit Data Protection Services to help scan and detect sensitive information within pentabytes of data in Intuit's global Datalake, Event Bus, and Athena resources. Both services are currently being used by 100s of engineers internally at Intuit.

Skills and technologies learned along the way include React, Docker, Artifactory, various Encryption protocols, the AWS Serverless stack, Node.JS, Data Modeling, and best practices for Software Architecture & Design.

Brian Bristol attended Y Combinator for their Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Philosophy. Brian then attended Bowdoin College for their schooling.