Ben Guo
Software Factory Manager at Hraness
Puerto Rico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Guo is a product-oriented software leader and founder with 13 years of engineering experience, including over eight years at Stripe where he advanced from founding Terminal engineer to managing managers and shipping cross-cutting payments, payouts, and mobile products. He co-founded Zo Computer and now leads Zo, focusing on personal AI computing while leveraging deep expertise in mobile SDKs and developer tooling. At Stripe he drove mobile payment elements, embeddable KYC flows, and expanded global payout and Terminal coverage, and he’s an active contributor to the widely used stripe-ios SDK (notably Apple Pay and payment context improvements). Based in New York, he blends hands-on iOS and backend integration work with people leadership and startup building, informed by an academic background in neurobiology and computer science from Harvard. An early-career focus on audio and psychoacoustics hints at a long-standing interest in user-facing signal processing and instrumentation.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Neurobiology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Neurobiology, Computer Science at Harvard University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
swift10
ios10
apple-pay10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
objective-c9
sdk8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stripe/stripe-ios
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Stripe iOS SDK
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 70 commits, 115 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the iOS SDK for Stripe, focusing on improvements to payment context and Apple Pay integration. Their work included refactoring code related to shipping address handling, moving customer-related functions to a backend API adapter, and updating documentation. The user also made changes to the UI and navigation components within the SDK, including adding support for large titles and handling safe area insets.
iosstripestripe-sdk
ProjectFlorida/Charlotte
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:304 commits, 24 branches in 7 months
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