James Carr
Software Engineer at Stripe
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Carr is a software engineer with nine years of experience based in Stony Stratford, England, currently advancing Stripe's Terminal product. He has deep payments domain experience from earlier work on Payouts—integrating banking partners across Southeast Asia and improving payouts in Brazil—and now focuses on API design, onboarding engineers from acquisitions, and raising operational rigor through metrics and documentation. A Masters of Engineering in Computing from Imperial College London, James blends hands-on implementation with product-facing engineering and team enablement. Colleagues rely on him for clear API contracts and practical observability that keep merchant-facing hardware and SDKs reliable at scale.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering (MEng), Computing, Masters of Engineering (MEng), Computing at Imperial College London
Github Skills (27)
sorbet10
ruby10
checker10
stripe9
stripe-api9
api8
api-client8
programming-language7
jit7
rust7
python6
class-library5
checkout5
portable4
async4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sorbet/sorbet
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 8 months
type-checkersorbetrubychecker
hexclock/HexClock
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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