Mahir Kothary
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMahir Kothary is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building Terminal and Payments at Stripe out of Seattle. He has deep commerce and payments expertise from multiple roles at HBO, where he led the design and migration of in-house billing, implemented large-scale load testing for high-profile launches, and cut system latency by 10x through Stripe integrations. Comfortable across stacks, Mahir combines backend systems design, financial tooling, and data-driven product improvements using Python and SQL, and has led cross-team feature crews and OpenAPI-driven prototyping. His background includes startup and founder experience as a CTO, plus student leadership at UW, reflecting a blend of technical depth and operational/organizational savvy. Notably, he pairs enterprise-scale payments work with hands-on prototyping—bridging research, implementation, and rollout in global expansion efforts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of WashingtonIndian Certificate of Secondary Education, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education at Campion SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell TechInternational Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Aditya Birla World Academy
English, Hindi, Spanish, Gujarati
Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mahirk/mahirk.github.io
Sep 2016 - May 2022
Personal Website
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 64 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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