Matthew Arkin
Software Engineer at Bridge
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Arkin is a Sr Staff Engineer at Braintree (PayPal) based in Seattle with 12 years of experience focused on payments and financial services. He is a subject-matter expert in card networks, scheme compliance and ISO8583-style authorization/clearing flows, leading technical governance and cross-team initiatives such as 8-digit BIN support and installment feature rollouts. At Stripe and Braintree he bridged operations and engineering to automate processes, cut payment error rates by roughly 30 basis points, and increase transaction approvals while negotiating specs with processors and card networks. He holds an MS in information security and brings unusual breadth—from building consumer-facing media transcoding pipelines to scaling settlement jobs and maintaining 14+ processor integrations. Matthew pairs hands-on coding with principal engineering leadership to make compliance and operational complexity manageable for product teams.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Capitol Technology UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Pine Crest SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Science, Technology and Society, Bachelor of Science (BS), Science, Technology and Society at Stanford University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
node-js10
visa10
payment-service10
php-library10
google-pay10
tencent10
psd210
api10
payment10
apple-pay10
stripe-api10
stripe-payments10
ruby-gems10
java10
knife10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
matthewarkin/tapioca
May 2022 - Aug 2024
The swiss army knife of RBI generation
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
kniferbiswissarmy
matthewarkin/spoom
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Useful tools for Sorbet enthusiasts
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
sourcemodazerothcoresorbetuseful-toolstoolkit
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