Summary
Abdul Bagasra is a Staff Software Engineer at Stripe in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building production systems since graduating CS from UIUC in 2019. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Stripe, moving from intern to staff, with prior full-time and intern experience at Facebook and Citadel that sharpened his product- and data-focused instincts. His work has spanned front-end and backend systems, ML-driven features (e.g., video thumbnail models during a Facebook internship), and financial infrastructure at Stripe. He combines startup grit—co-founding a textbook wholesale business that generated substantial revenue—with large-scale engineering discipline from industry leaders. Known for shipping measurable impact (improving engagement metrics and automating revenue-driving processes), he thrives at the intersection of data, product, and scalable engineering. Based in the Bay Area, he brings both entrepreneurial experience and deep hands-on coding to complex payments and platform challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Barrington High School
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi