My name is Brian Muller, and I'm an operator, investor, and founder with two exits.
💻 Most recently, I was the CTO and Co-founder of
Parallel Markets
which provided portable investor identity and accreditation services to make investing online easier. Parallel Markets was
acquired by iCapital
in early 2025.
📰 Before that, I was the VP of Data and Growth at the magazine
The Atlantic
, and prior to that I was the Director of Data Science at
Vox Media
.
At both publications I founded, grew, and led the Data Science and Data Infrastructure teams.
📈 Before that, I was CTO and Co-founder of
OpBandit
, which optimized content on major publishers'
sites across 7 countries.
OpBandit was acquired by Vox Media in April of 2015.
🎟️ Prior to that, I ran the Data Science, Data Products, and Data Infrastructure teams at
LivingSocial
in Washington, DC.
🇺🇸 Before that I worked as the the Web Director for
Foreign Policy Magazine
in Washington, DC.
🔬 Prior to that I was a research assistant in the
Center for Computational Genomics
at
Johns Hopkins
in Baltimore, MD, where I applied machine learning/AI to help make sense of
highly complex genetic data.
🎓 Before that I was a graduate student at the
Medical University of South Carolina
in Charleston, SC
where I received a MS degree in bioinformatics with a focus on applied
natural language processing.