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Brynn C.

Brynn Claypoole

Seasoned Hiring Manager | Former Director | Ex-Meta

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    University of Pennsylvania

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    Productiv

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Brynn’s Software Engineering Qualifications

Experience level: Manager

I'm a seasoned software engineering manager who has interviewed 50+ candidates and taught online courses on software engineer interviewing. I've transitioned my career several times and earned repeated promotions, including at Meta. I've guided many people through interviewing for new roles and I'm eager to help you reach your next step too!

Brynn can help with:

Behavioral Interview Prep

LinkedIn Review

Promotion Strategy

Resume Review

Technical Interview Prep

Work Experience

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Engineering Manager

Productiv

May 2025 - June 2026

Hiring Manager

I managed a team of six full-stack and AI engineers building core product features. I led the delivery of an AI-powered contract ingestion and correction platform that reduced turn around time from weeks to minutes.

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Director

Slingshot Biosciences

October 2022 - March 2024

Hiring Manager

I joined as the head of the software to build a software department from scratch. I hired and managed software engineers, a computational biologist/data scientist and a business systems engineer. I acted as the lead architect for our software engineering team in building a cloud data storage and scientific analysis tool.

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Senior Software Engineering Manager

10x Genomics

April 2021 - October 2022

Hiring Manager

I managed a department of nine full-stack software engineers, including one manager. My team focused on customer-facing scientific visualization software. I was a hiring manager for software engineers and led the intern hiring program for the product software engineering department. I also served as an interviewer for roles in other departments such as software QA, software product management, and software design.

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Senior Software Engineer

10x Genomics

April 2020 - March 2021

Interviewer

I was a full-stack engineer leading projects and team meetings for the scientific visualization software Loupe Browser. In one project I led three other engineers to rearchitect and optimize the Loupe VDJ Browser, including shrinking data storage sizes by 100x.

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Software Engineer

10x Genomics

October 2018 - March 2020

I was a full-stack engineer for the Loupe Browser, a customer-facing scientific visualization tool. I contributed to the first version of the spatial genomics (Visium) platform and was awarded patents for that work.

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Data Engineer

Meta

September 2017 - October 2018

I split my time between full-stack and data pipeline engineering. I managed an intern who got a full-time offer.

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Lead Data Analyst

Udacity

April 2017 - October 2017

Interviewer

I managed the engagement analytics department at Udacity, which meant managing four data analysts and working closely with company executives to define and track relevant metrics.

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Senior Data Analyst

Udacity

July 2016 - April 2017

Interviewer

I owned Udacity's data pipelines and core metrics as the company's first data analyst. I created the machine learning APIs that powered Udacity's course recommendation features. I owned tools including Redshift, Airflow, AWS Data Pipeline, and Segment.

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Android Course Manager

Udacity

June 2015 - July 2016

I supported students in the Android Nanodegree with 1:1 mentoring, code review, office hours, and forum support. I created the "Android Interviewing" and "Technical Interview: Algorithms and Data Structures in Python" courses, including scripting, curriculum design, and appearing on camera.

Brynn was also given offers to work at

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    Axios

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    Syapse

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    BioMADE

Education

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University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor's Degree, Computational Biology

2011 - 2015

My degree was primarily a computer science degree with selected biology and graduate-level computational biology classes. I was the head of the PennApps hackathon and grew it from a <500 person event to a 1200+ person event. I was featured in a Student Spotlight in Penn Today for my work with PennApps and consulted with students at other universities to help them start their hackathons (HackMIT, VTHacks, et cetera). I did computational biology research at Penn Medicine as a member of the University Scholars program. I was also selected to join the women's engineering sorority AOE and the Bell Senior Society (for tech and entrepreneurship).

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