Dennis Beatty
CEO at Surge (YC F24)
Lehi, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Beatty is a pragmatic software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building payments and messaging systems at scale, now CEO of Surge (YC F24) focused on simplifying SMS. He has led cross-functional engineering efforts to process over $30B in rent payments, migrate critical systems to AWS and containers, and introduce CI/CD, Terraform, and automated migrations. A hands-on engineer, Dennis has shipped payment products using Elixir, Go, Ruby, and Node, and contributed to the Elixir Stripe library stripity-stripe by adding Checkout and Connect support. He combines product intuition from founding startups with executional rigor from senior roles at Podium, Neighbor, and Entrata, and is known for improving observability and reducing operational cost through automation. Outside work he’s Utah’s self-declared worst mini-golfer and the “favorite older brother,” a hint at a personable leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Warren High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Management Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
21reputation
74reached
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Github Skills (6)
apim10
api10
stripe10
elixir10
stripe-api10
phoenix-framework6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
beam-community/stripity-stripe
Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
An Elixir Library for Stripe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Dennis contributed to the `beam-community/stripity-stripe` repository, an Elixir library for Stripe, by implementing features related to Stripe Checkout and Connect. They added support for new Checkout flows, which likely involved modifying existing code and integrating new API endpoints. Furthermore, the user introduced the functionality for account links, which is essential for managing Stripe Connect accounts. They also made changes to documentation and converted responses, showing a focus on feature implementation and API integration within the context of the Stripe payment platform.
hexelixir-librarystripeelixirstripe-api
dnsbty/level10
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Phoenix LiveView multiplayer card game
Contributions:284 commits, 31 PRs, 238 pushes in 2 years 10 months
gameliveviewelixirphoenix-liveviewwebsocket
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