JW

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale financial systems and payment platforms used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

About

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale financial systems and
payment platforms used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Proven expertise developing high-reliability
payment infrastructure, financial APIs, and distributed transaction systems across companies including Stripe,
Facebook, and Netflix.
Experienced delivering end-to-end full-stack platforms, from modern React-based user interfaces to
high-performance backend services supporting real-time financial transactions. Strong background in microservices,
event-driven architectures, and cloud-native infrastructure for global fintech platforms.

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Media & Entertainment

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer · StripeJan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

Core engineer on Stripe’s Money Movement platform, responsible for back end services powering payment flows used by over 3 million business users globally. Designed scalable microservices and APIs handling more than 5 million payment transactions per day across multiple payment methods and financial networks. Built event-driven payment processing services processing over 10 million financial events daily, including authorization, settlement, and fund transfers. Implemented idempotent API patterns and divided transaction handling, reducing duplicate transactions incidents to fewer than 1 in 100 thousand operations. Improved payment reliability and failure recovery mechanisms, reducing transaction failure rate from around 2 percent to under 1 percent. Developed internal operational tools and monitoring dashboards used by hundreds of engineers and operations staff to diagnose payment pipeline issues. Collaborated with product and infrastructure teams to improve developer platform capabi

Senior Software Engineer · FacebookDec 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Designed payment partner integration framework supporting Novi digital wallet platform. Built back-end services enabling wallet fund inflows and cash-out flows processing tens of thousands of daily transfers to external banks and payment networks. Worked with product and compliance to ensure integrations meet regulatory requirements across more than 10 international markets. Built monitoring systems tracking real-time transaction success rates and partner performance metrics, reducing issue detection time from hours to minutes. Scaled partner integration platform to support multiple financial providers and regional payment systems globally.

Senior Software Engineer · NetflixOct 2014 – Nov 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Built core payment platform infrastructure supporting subscription billing across 190 countries and over 150 million subscribers. Led integrations with more than 30 global payment providers, enabling support for regional payment methods worldwide.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering · The Ohio State University2006 – 2010

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