Jakub Derda
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Mühlenbecker Land, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolJakub Derda is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading cross-functional engineering teams across payments, SaaS, and privacy-focused tooling. He has progressed from founding and CTO roles to senior technical leadership at HubSpot and Personio, now contributing to Stripe’s platform-level challenges. Jakub specializes in authorization, access rights management, privacy/compliance automation, and creating internal developer tooling that scales product and process. He combines hands-on coding and architecture with mentoring and product-driven prioritization, frequently stepping in to triage critical production issues. Based in Germany with a Master’s in Computer Science, he brings an uncommon mix of startup founder grit and enterprise operating experience. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex regulatory or platform constraints into practical, well-documented services that unblock other teams.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyFinance General, Finance General at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Polish, English, German
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kobietydokodupl/projekt-bilet
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 32 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
kobietydokodupl/footrzasta
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 3 pushes in 1 month
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