Gary Rafferty is an engineering manager with 14 years of software experience and over a decade leading teams that turn data and platform initiatives into measurable business value. Currently at Stripe, he focuses on platform solutions to accelerate global payment methods and operational excellence, following leadership roles at Zalando where he steered partner-growth and data pillars to empower merchant decision-making. He combines hands-on product and engineering experience from startups (co-founding PropelAd) to scale-ups and large platforms, with a track record of building high-performing teams and fostering talent mobility. A pragmatic bar-raiser and coach, he writes about leadership and learning and brings a practitioner’s insight into how people and systems grow together.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Web Technologies, Master of Science (MSc) Web Technologies at National College of Ireland
Postgraduate Diploma Business Management Practice, Postgraduate Diploma Business Management Practice at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
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