Greg Brockman

Greg Brockman (born November 10, 1988) is an American technology executive and a software engineer. He was a founding team member and former Chief Technology Officer of Stripe.
As an advocate of open source and cryptocurrency technologies, Brockman helped launch Stellar, an open source protocol for digital currency exchange in which Stripe invested $3 million.
In May 2015, Brockman left Stripe to pursue his own startup.
Early career
Brockman won an International Chemistry Olympiad silver medal while in high school.
Brockman studied Math at Harvard before transferring to MIT to study computer science. At Harvard, Brockman administered and built computer systems for the Harvard Computer Society. He also contributed to open source technologies, submitting patches to Git, the distributed revision control system, and bug fixes to the Python programming language.
While at MIT, Brockman helped build the technical infrastructure for Ksplice, an extension of the Linux kernel that allows security patches to be applied to a running kernel without the need for reboots. In 2011, Ksplice was acquired by Oracle.
Corporate career
Stripe
Early days
Brockman left MIT to join Stripe's founders, Patrick and John Collison, as the team's second hire. At the time, the company operated under the name /dev/payments. Brockman came up with the name "Stripe" for the company.
Brockman officially assumed the role of Stripe's CTO in early 2013. In 2014, he developed Stripe's industry-first Open Source Grant Award, which awarded financing and resources to open source developers working on high-impact software engineering projects.
Email transparency
Brockman introduced an "open by default” email policy to Stripe's internal communications, which was cited in the technology and business sectors. Email transparency consists of employees' opted-in business-related email messages being openly indexed and shared across the company. Some tech companies, including Khan Academy and Buffer, adopted Brockman's approach to organizational transparency.
Capture the Flag
Brockman co-created Stripe's "Capture the Flag" (CTF) IT events, which are coding and security skill-based competitions that the company uses for brand awareness and recruitment purposes within the tech industry.
Cryptocurrencies
Under the guidance of Brockman, Stripe invested ($3 million) into and helped launch Stellar, a non-profit open source currency-exchange network. The Stellar network can be used to send and receive payments across international currencies.

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