Brian Mathews
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mathews is a Staff Software Engineer and designer based in Seattle with a decade-plus track record building and shipping over 40 production web applications for high-profile clients like Wikipedia, Nike, the USPTO, and Stripe. He spans full-stack development—crafting pixel-perfect designs and live style guides, implementing performant SPAs with React/Polymer/Angular, and delivering secure back ends in Express/Koa/Rails/Flask—then containerizing and deploying via Docker and Terraform. Known for obsessive attention to detail, he blends a designer’s eye for UX and animation with rigorous, test-driven engineering to produce accessible, well-documented components and UI frameworks. His debugging chops and measurement-first approach make him the go-to engineer for tracking down tricky production issues quickly. Notably, he has shipped large CSS frameworks and style guides used by hundreds of developers at the USPTO, demonstrating an ability to scale design systems across organizations.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at University of WashingtonAssociate of Arts & Science, Associate of Arts & Science at Olympic College
Github Skills (16)
stripe-payments10
android-sdk10
payment-processing10
payment10
stripe10
sepa10
google-pay10
stripe-js10
adyen10
stripe-api10
react9
payment-methods9
sdk9
square9
react-components9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
stripe/stripe-js
Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
Loading wrapper for Stripe.js
Contributions:2 releases, 26 reviews, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
stripestripe-paymentssepastripe-jsstripe-api
stripe/react-stripe-js
Apr 2022 - May 2022
React components for Stripe.js and Stripe Elements
Contributions:3 releases, 31 reviews, 19 commits in 1 month
reactstripeelementsstripe-elementsstripe-payments
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