Claire Hsu is a software engineer at Stripe with eight years of experience building payment infrastructure and financial products, combining deep systems and web expertise. An MIT-trained engineer (BS ’20, MEng ’21), she has shipped production services at large tech companies including Google and Microsoft and served as CTO of a startup where she led full-stack development with Firebase, Twilio, Python, and React. Her background spans low-level performance work in C/C++ for sparse linear algebra and large-scale logging and data pipelines, giving her a rare blend of performance-oriented systems thinking and product-facing web engineering. Based in New York, she focuses on pragmatic, scalable solutions and stakeholder-aligned roadmaps, and is comfortable moving between research-grade optimization and shipping customer-facing features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 4.9/5.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 4.9/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Valedictorian, 4.8/4.0, Valedictorian, 4.8/4.0 at Fairmont Preparatory Academy
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