Grant Mcgovern
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Mcgovern is an experienced engineering manager and former software engineer with 12 years building trading and fintech systems, currently leading teams at Stripe where he focuses on Stripe Capital. He combines low-level technical chops in Python and C++ with an unusual affinity for Erlang and functional languages, reflecting a taste for resilient, concurrent systems. His background includes delivering product-focused engineering at Goldman Sachs’ Marquee team and hands-on roles across startups and media, giving him a strong mix of product intuition and execution. A Wake Forest CS graduate who has lived and worked across DC, London, New York, and Stockholm, he brings a cosmopolitan perspective and a minimalist design philosophy to system architecture. Outside of work he channels the same craftsmanship into woodworking and cycling, and treats coding style as an aesthetic discipline—four spaces, no tabs.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Syracuse University Study Abroad Program (London)St. Andrew's Episcopal SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Wake Forest University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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7answers
45questions
Github Skills (114)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
g12mcgov/Puzzlr-Backend
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
g12mcgov/Interview_Practice
May 2015 - Nov 2019
A collection of random bits of codes (Data Structures, Algorithms, etc...) I used to prepare for interviews. BEWARE: A lot of this does NOT compile and is pseudo code.
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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