Claire Hsu
Software Engineer at Stripe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClaire 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 TechnologyValedictorian, 4.8/4.0, Valedictorian, 4.8/4.0 at Fairmont Preparatory Academy
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
code-generation10
parallel-computing9
high-performance9
machine-learning9
graph9
graph-algorithms9
compiler8
analytics8
planning1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chsu1r/chsu1r.github.io
Mar 2020 - Sep 2024
my webpage
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
reactwebpage
rocarrillos/beatrunner
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Final project for 21M.385 Interactive Music Systems centered around on-beat endless runner
Contributions:8 PRs, 48 pushes, 6 branches in 25 days
music-compositioninteractive-musicbeatmusiccentered
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