Summary
George Birch is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in front-end mobile development for iOS and Android, currently contributing to Stripe after roles at Garmin and Meta. He designs polished user interfaces in close partnership with designers while owning cross-team technical projects like data logging pipelines and platform libraries that serve millions of users. His work includes shipping a community voice chat feature in Messenger with 10,000+ weekly users and A/B testing discussion-quality improvements on Facebook’s Android app, blending product intuition with rigorous measurement. Known for a meticulous, user-first approach, he prioritizes wellbeing, safety, and privacy in every product decision. An Oberlin Computer Science and Math graduate now based in Seattle, he brings field-tested leadership from both high-scale consumer apps and hands-on outdoor roles that shaped his crisis-response and team-management skills.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The Overlake School
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Oberlin College