Bryan Helmig

Bryan Helmig is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zapier, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He established the workflow automation platform in 2011 alongside Wade Foster before participating in the Y Combinator Summer 2012 batch. Under his technical direction, the fully remote organization scaled to over $100 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved a $5 billion valuation in 2021, despite raising only $1.3 million in primary venture funding from investors like Sequoia Capital. Helmig architected the initial infrastructure that now connects more than 6,000 distinct web applications for millions of global users. Prior to launching the company, he worked as a freelance software engineer and studied at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His current focus centers on managing distributed engineering teams and expanding the platform's capabilities through new artificial intelligence integrations.