Summary
Benjamin Papillon is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Schematic, a startup that abstracts pricing and packaging into a few lines of code. He has held senior technical and leadership roles across fintech and SaaS companies—CTO/VP-level positions at Matcha and RootsRated Media, director roles at Umbel, and engineering work at Relay Payments and Springbot—bringing deep expertise in shipping billing and monetization systems. Known for turning billing and pricing complexity into developer-friendly platforms, he focuses on enabling teams to ship faster while removing long-lived engineering burdens. Based in Atlanta, he blends hands-on product engineering with strategic architecture and GTM-oriented roadmap decisions. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic operator who favors shipping practical systems over theoretical perfection. He holds a BA from the University of Georgia and consistently applies that practical, product-first mindset to founder-stage technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia