About Us

Kanary is made with love by a team of engineers, analysts, and data scientists.

Our Team Values

In 2020, after the tumultuous presidential election, Team Kanary launched a web app for personal data removal, now loved by over 20,000 people. We’ve raised venture capital from top funds like YC & 2048 and grown to profitability. All with a small dedicated team of privacy nerds: Joe, Ryan, Michael, A.C, Nikita, and Rachel. (And their pets: Johnny Highway, Henry, Captain, Goober, Cali, Sunday, and Athena.).

We're a friendly, tight knit team who may geek out over the super moon, build their own computers, or climb through a window if they’re locked out of an airbnb.

Values are meant to unite our team and guide us toward building the best experience for our members. If everything is going great we may not need to look at these. But if we are blocked or anxious about our work (which we all inevitably will be) this is a framework for resetting our approach, gaining confidence, and making progress.

Flex beyond your comfort zone.
- Jumping in, helping out, and learning something new is more important than sticking to your expertise.
- Design can write code. Engineering can create copy. We all can answer a member's question. We contain multitudes.
Write it down.
- Increase accountability. Visualize the workload. Embrace transparency.
- Everyone documents. Everyone has access (except if it hurts momentum or invades personal privacy).
Be direct. Be focused.
- Set a clear goal. Gather your thoughts. Ask the stupid question. We can’t make decisions without understanding.
- Make the thing about the thing. Work atomically and quickly.
Err on the side of async.
- Protect time for deep work. Ask to leave a meeting, move a discussion to parking lot, ask for notes beforehand.
Embrace your inner theatre major.
- Get curious. Just try it. Prepare. Tell a story. Get weird. Ask a teammate for a dry run or pixel review.
Protect your sanity.
- We have late nights. We embrace risk with urgency. But we stay sane. Cybersecurity is famous for burn out. Go get inspired by something away from your screen.

If these resonate with you, consider joining our team.