10 Stripe engineering leaders
Payments engineering at Stripe, a group of about 600 people by its head's account, sits beside money movement and storage, Connect and crypto, billing, compliance foundations, and core and data infrastructure, joined by a former Stripe CTO and the CTO of Stripe Payments UK Ltd. The group suits fintechs building on bank rails and engineering leaders splitting product teams from shared infrastructure.
Professionals to explore
Abhisek Chatterjee
LinkedInExperience: Head of Core Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure · Stripe
Abhisek Chatterjee's Stripe titles trace the infrastructure group: Head of Compute (2021-2022), Head of Engineering Compute, Networking Infrastructure (2022), Head of Core Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Storage, HAE) (2022-2023), Head of Core Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Databases, HADR, High Assurance Engineering) (since 2023) and Head of Core Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure since 2025. Abhisek describes over 25 years of industry experience.
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Calvin Grunewald
LinkedInExperience: Former VP of Engineering, Billing · Stripe
Calvin Grunewald was VP of Engineering, Billing at Stripe from 2023 to 2025 and has been Founder, CTO of ArchAstro since 2025. Before Stripe, Calvin was Chief Technology Officer (2020-2021) and President, Production and Technology (2021-2022) at Playco and Director Of Engineering at Facebook (2019-2020), a fit for billing engineering questions.
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Horia Coman
LinkedInExperience: Site-Lead & Director of Engineering · Stripe
In Bucharest, Horia Coman is Site-Lead & Director of Engineering at Stripe (since 2023), leading a team that builds the physical layer of money movement with banks, fintechs, national payment schemes and blockchain startups, and serving as Stripe's site lead in Romania. Bolt roles include Engineering Manager (2019), Senior Engineering Manager (2019-2020) and Director Of Engineering (2020-2023).
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Jurgen Van Gael
LinkedInExperience: CTO & Board Member, Stripe Payments UK Ltd · Stripe
Jurgen Van Gael holds two current Stripe titles, CTO & Board Member, Stripe Payments UK Ltd (since 2023) and Engineering, Money Movement & Storage (since 2020), leading a global team building money movement and storage products across fiat and stablecoin. Engineering Manager at Facebook (2016-2020) and Software Engineer at Google (2014-2016) are also listed, plus a data science director role at Rangespan (2011-2014).
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Maggie Nelson
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Head of Compliance Foundations · Stripe
Compliance as software is how Maggie Nelson describes the work as Director of Engineering, Head of Compliance Foundations at Stripe (since 2021), turning regulatory compliance into automated platforms. Maggie was Head of Engineering, Services Platform at Dropbox (2017-2021) and held director of engineering roles for API Platform at Twitch (2016-2017) and Infrastructure at GitHub (2015-2016), a fit for compliance tooling questions.
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Neetika Bansal
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payments Engineering · Stripe
Neetika Bansal leads the engineering and operations team for Stripe Payments globally as Head of Payments Engineering (since 2023), a group of about 600 people responsible for payments user experiences, APIs, internal platforms and network integrations. Neetika was Head of Money Movement at Stripe (2018-2023), Tech Lead Manager at Google (2014-2018) and Software Engineer at Microsoft (2012-2014).
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Rahul Patil
LinkedInExperience: Former CTO · Stripe
Rahul Patil was CTO at Stripe from 2024 to 2025, responsible for Engineering and Global Operations, after Deputy CTO (2024) and Head of Infrastructure and Global Operations (2023-2024) there. Since 2025 Rahul has been CTO at Anthropic and a Board Member at Gusto, a fit for questions on running engineering for financial infrastructure that has to be both fast-moving and dependable.
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Skye Lee
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Stripe
Skye Lee has been Director of Engineering at Stripe since 2022, after Technical Lead there from 2017 to 2022, and held Senior Software Engineer roles at Amazon (2009-2017). Skye describes specializing in payment infrastructure and large scale systems design, useful for questions on growing from technical lead to director inside a payments engineering team.
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Suryaveer Lodha
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering for Money as a Service (Connect, Money Management & Crypto) · Stripe
Suryaveer Lodha is Head of Engineering for Money as a Service (Connect, Money Management & Crypto) at Stripe (since 2025), after Head of Money Movement and Storage (2023-2025). Director of Engineering Uber Freight Marketplace & Data Platform at Uber (2017-2023) and Engineering Leader at Opower (2014-2017) round out a record that fits Connect, money management and crypto questions.
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Vadim Jelezniakov
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data Infrastructure · Stripe
Databases are Vadim Jelezniakov's recent ground: Head of Databases (Document DB, Storage Services, HADR) at Stripe (2024-2025), then Head of Data Infrastructure since 2025. Vadim was Chief Technology Officer (2023-2024) and Interim CPO (2023-2024) at GeoComply and Director of Engineering, Core Services PE at Meta (2022-2023), a fit for database reliability questions in financial systems.
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Choose the right perspective
Rahul Patil, Stripe's CTO until 2025, suits questions on running engineering and operations together, and Neetika Bansal on the payments product group. For money movement pick Jurgen Van Gael, Horia Coman or Suryaveer Lodha; for infrastructure pick Abhisek Chatterjee or Vadim Jelezniakov; Maggie Nelson covers compliance as software, Calvin Grunewald billing, and Skye Lee payment infrastructure from a long technical lead tenure.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a payments company decide which network integrations and APIs belong to product teams and which to a shared platform?
- 02What does high availability and disaster recovery look like for databases that hold financial records?
- 03How do you connect money movement to banks, national payment schemes and stablecoins in many countries without building each one from scratch?
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