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10 Stripe engineering leaders
These ten current and former Stripe engineering leaders include a former Stripe CTO, the CTO of Stripe Payments UK Ltd, a former vice president of engineering, and directors and heads of engineering for payments, infrastructure, compliance and money movement. Readers can learn how Stripe organizes engineering for payments, core infrastructure and money movement.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abhisek Chatterjee
LinkedInExperience: Head of Core Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure · Stripe
Head of Core Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure at Stripe since 2025 and Head of Core Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Databases, HADR, High Assurance Engineering) since 2023. His other Stripe roles include Head of Core Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Storage, HAE) (2022–2023), Head of Engineering Compute, Networking Infrastructure (2022) and Head of Compute (2021–2022).
Calvin Grunewald
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering, Billing · Stripe
Former VP of Engineering, Billing at Stripe (2023–2025) and Founder, CTO at ArchAstro since 2025. His profile also lists President, Production and Technology (2021–2022) and Chief Technology Officer (2020–2021) at Playco, and Director Of Engineering at Facebook (2019–2020).
Horia Coman
LinkedInExperience: Site-Lead & Director of Engineering · Stripe
Site-Lead & Director of Engineering at Stripe since 2023; his profile says he leads a team that builds the physical layer of money movement, partnering with banks, fintechs, national payment schemes and blockchain startups, and serves as site lead for Stripe in Romania. He was Director Of Engineering at Bolt (2020–2023).
Jurgen Van Gael
LinkedInExperience: CTO & Board Member, Stripe Payments UK Ltd · Stripe
CTO & Board Member, Stripe Payments UK Ltd at Stripe since 2023, and in an Engineering, Money Movement & Storage role at Stripe since 2020, where his profile says he leads a global team building Stripe's money movement and storage products across fiat and stablecoin. He was an Engineering Manager at Facebook (2016–2020) and a Software Engineer at Google (2014–2016).
Maggie Nelson
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Head of Compliance Foundations · Stripe
Director of Engineering, Head of Compliance Foundations at Stripe since 2021; her profile describes turning functions such as developer velocity and regulatory compliance into automated software platforms. She was Head of Engineering, Services Platform at Dropbox (2017–2021), Director of Engineering, API Platform at Twitch (2016–2017) and Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at GitHub (2015–2016).
Neetika Bansal
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payments Engineering · Stripe
Head of Payments Engineering at Stripe since 2023; her profile says she leads the engineering and operations team for Stripe Payments globally, a group of about 600 people responsible for payments user experiences, APIs, internal platforms and network integrations. She was Head of Money Movement at Stripe (2018–2023) and a Tech Lead Manager at Google (2014–2018).
Rahul Patil
LinkedInExperience: CTO · Stripe
Former CTO at Stripe (2024–2025), a role his profile says covered two core functions, Engineering and Global Operations. His other Stripe roles were Deputy CTO (2024) and Head of Infrastructure and Global Operations (2023–2024), and he has been CTO at Anthropic since 2025.
Skye Lee
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Stripe
Director of Engineering at Stripe since 2022, and a Technical Lead at Stripe (2017–2022). The profile describes specializing in payment infrastructure, large scale systems design, technical strategy and people leadership, and lists Senior Software Engineer roles at Amazon (2009–2017) and Business Analyst at VMware (2006–2009).
Suryaveer Lodha
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering for Money as a Service (Connect, Money Management & Crypto) · Stripe
Head of Engineering for Money as a Service (Connect, Money Management & Crypto) at Stripe since 2025, and Head of Money Movement and Storage there (2023–2025), a role the profile lists at Director level. He was Director of Engineering Uber Freight Marketplace & Data Platform at Uber (2017–2023) and an Engineering Leader at Opower (2014–2017).
Vadim Jelezniakov
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data Infrastructure · Stripe
Head of Data Infrastructure at Stripe since 2025; he was Head of Databases (Document DB, Storage Services, HADR) at Stripe (2024–2025), a role the profile lists at Director level. His profile also lists Chief Technology Officer at GeoComply (2023–2024) and Director of Engineering, Core Services PE at Meta (2022–2023).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question: CTOs and vice presidents suit questions about engineering strategy and organization, while payments, infrastructure and money movement leaders suit questions about building and running specific systems. Check whether the Stripe role is current or past before asking about recent practices.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a payments company split engineering between product teams and shared infrastructure?
- 02What does it take to run databases and compute for financial infrastructure with very high reliability?
- 03How do you build money movement systems that connect to banks and payment schemes in many countries?
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