Christopher Wright
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Wright is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading product and platform teams across payments, consumer apps, and retail technology. Currently hiring for backend and mobile roles at Stripe while managing Cards for APAC & EMEA, he blends operational leadership with hands-on engineering judgment. His background includes scaling Glossier’s engineering organization through rapid growth and architecting mobile releases at Kickstarter—contributing to the open-source iOS and Android apps that supported millions of users and significant pledges. He’s led cross-functional teams at startups and scale-ups (Supergreat, Local Measure) and shipped in-person payments at Stripe Terminal, showing a rare mix of retail, payments, and mobile product expertise. Based in Sydney, he’s comfortable hiring remote talent across North America and has a proven track record of evolving architecture and team processes to handle 100x traffic spikes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs empathy with measurable impact across engineering, data, and product.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in IT Innovation, Bachelor of Science in IT Innovation at University of Technology, Sydney
Github Skills (8)
swift10
ios10
ios-application10
reactivecocoa9
frp5
reactiveswift5
functional-programming-language5
functional-programming5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kickstarter/ios-oss
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
Kickstarter for iOS. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere.
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the iOS application, specifically focusing on the `kickstarter/ios-oss` project. Their work involved the implementation and testing of a search viewmodel, including the creation of unit tests. The code changes demonstrate the user's involvement in the application's viewmodel structure and testing practices.
functional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programmingios-appanywherereactivecocoa
christopherwright/christopherwright.github.io
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
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