Summary
Benjamin Stirrup is a startup CTO and founding engineer with nine years of experience building product-led web and mobile platforms across fintech, mobility, and cultural services. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (React/React Native, Django, Spring Boot) with product and DevOps leadership, having rebuilt Pass Culture into a unified cross‑platform codebase and cut loan processing lead times at fintech clients. As CTO at NessPay and now HQ Workspace he focuses on payments, bookings, and on‑demand salary workflows that connect business goals to scalable technical choices. Trained at LSE, École Polytechnique and Berkeley’s entrepreneurship program, he moves comfortably between technical architecture, agile product coaching, and business strategy. Colleagues cite his emphasis on standardizing development practices and mentoring teams to produce higher‑quality, deployable code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Learn2Launch (Master's Exchange Program) Entrepreneurship & Data Science, Learn2Launch (Master's Exchange Program) Entrepreneurship & Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master’s Degree Technological Venture & Computer Science, Master’s Degree Technological Venture & Computer Science at École Polytechnique
London School of Economics and Political Science
French, English