Eugene Sun
Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Sun is a versatile engineer with 15 years of experience building products and architecting systems across startups and enterprise teams from MIT research labs to Stripe in San Francisco. He combines hands-on full-stack implementation with product leadership, having founded Shockverse to ship games and web/mobile apps while driving payments and B2B financing products at Kinnek. His background spans embedded and parallel systems (Draper lunar-navigation work) to large-scale backend integrations and infrastructure, and he has practical experience moving teams away from monoliths toward service-oriented architectures. Eugene is equally comfortable coding, leading technical teams, and managing product requirements, with a track record of adding measurable business value like payment back-ends, A/B testing, and custom promotion systems. Based in San Francisco, he brings an engineer-founder mindset that emphasizes shipping secure, reliable systems end-to-end. An understated detail: his early work includes interactive public installations and many-core parallelization research, reflecting a long-standing blend of creative systems thinking and rigorous engineering.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) & Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Minor in Economics and Mathematics, Master of Engineering (MEng) & Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Minor in Economics and Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
emacs-lisp9
emacs9
vim9
melpa8
emacs-lsp7
ubuntu4
shell3
bash3
linux2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eugsun/emacs.d
Mar 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:116 pushes, 2 issues in 9 years 1 month
eugsun/ubuntu-up
Jul 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 2 months
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