Summary
Spencer Brown is a San Francisco–based founder and software leader with 11 years building product-driven startups and scalable systems. He currently leads Chestnut (YC X25), pursuing the first AI mortgage lender with NMLS #2687968, blending hands-on engineering with fintech product strategy. Previously he co-founded LoanCrate as Head of Engineering and Product, and before that built petascale data pipelines at Herophilus to accelerate neurological disease research. At Mixmax, he steered the meeting-scheduling feature used to book over 10 million meetings, demonstrating end-to-end delivery at speed. An early entrepreneur, he built an e-commerce store in high school and has done consulting for YC-backed startups. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and continues to tackle large-scale, data-driven problems from the heart of the San Francisco tech scene.
12 years of coding experience