Bryan Helmig
Founder at Zapier, Inc.
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBryan Helmig is a founder and technical leader, best known as the co-founder and CTO of Zapier, which he launched in 2011 to enable web automation via Zaps. He has guided Zapier’s engineering and product efforts as a 100% remote team, building scalable automation that powers a wide range of app integrations. His open-source contributions include notable work on urllib3, improving testing and edge-case handling for compressed data, along with backend enhancements to the Zapier platform CLI and the django-drip project. With 14 years of experience and a finance degree from the University of Missouri–Columbia, he combines product intuition with pragmatic engineering discipline. An alumnus of Y Combinator (2012), he has also launched multiple small products and developed internal tools at Veterans United, reflecting a hands-on, startup-driven mindset.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
apim10
javascript10
python10
api-design10
django10
testing10
http10
e-mail10
http-client10
mailer10
urllib10
api10
nodejs10
emailjs10
cli10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zapier/django-drip
Oct 2012 - Dec 2014
:droplet: Use Django admin to manage drip campaign emails using querysets on Django's User model.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the backend of the `django-drip` project, focusing on email drip campaign management within the Django framework. Their work involved fixing bugs related to filtering user data and handling email attachments, as well as refining the email sending logic. The user also implemented improvements like removing strict HTML-only email requirements and addressing dependency issues.
pythonadmindjangoemailsdroplet
zapier/zapier-platform
Aug 2016 - Nov 2021
The SDK for you to build an integration on Zapier
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 264 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bryan made numerous contributions to the Zapier platform CLI, primarily focusing on improving the developer experience. They implemented features for handling form and JSON data in HTTP requests and added related documentation. Furthermore, they addressed bug fixes and enhanced the testing framework, including changes to error handling and test configuration, as well as modifications to documentation. The contributions spanned across multiple files, indicating a broad impact on the project's functionality and user interface.
nodejszapiersdkcli
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