Founder Profile
Bryant Chou
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Bryant Chou possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply technical background in advanced computer science, complex cloud infrastructure architecture, and massive-scale web compiler engineering. Having successfully served as the CTO of Vungle and operating as a fiercely capable backend developer with incredibly deep expertise in highly scalable data pipelines, this intensely technical foundation provided the exact engineering mastery required to successfully co-found the massive Webflow platform.
Founding Story
Bryant Chou is a co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Webflow. An exceptional systems architect, Chou partnered with the Magdalin brothers to turn their visual web dream into high-performance cloud software. At Webflow, Chou architected the visual-to-AST compiler that generates clean semantic HTML5 and CSS, engineered the global edge hosting infrastructure on Fastly and AWS, and guided the early technical scaling of the platform. At Webflow, Chou engineered the core compiler and cloud infrastructure that converts visual canvas actions into pristine semantic HTML5 and CSS in real time. His architectural mastery established the multi-region edge hosting network on Fastly and AWS that serves billions of monthly pageviews with sub-50ms latency, proving that visual web development could achieve enterprise-grade performance.