Matthew Dickson
Software Engineer at Stripe
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Dickson is a software engineer based in Dublin with four years of hands-on experience building backend and payments infrastructure, most recently leading a data platform team at DailyPay before joining Stripe. He combines a strong engineering foundation—backed by a Master's in Software Development and a BSc in Mathematics—with prior professional qualifications as an ACA-trained accountant, giving him an uncommon fluency in both technical systems and financial operations. At DailyPay he progressed rapidly from building internal services to heading a team, focusing on developer productivity and scalable payment systems. Now at Stripe, he brings practical experience designing reliable backend services that simplify other engineers' work and support mission-critical financial flows. Colleagues value his blend of technical rigor, domain knowledge in payments, and a pragmatic leadership style that accelerates delivery.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ACA, ACA at Chartered Accountants IrelandMaster's degree, Software Development, Master's degree, Software Development at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (19)
render9
javascript9
sasl9
twitch9
open-source9
clip9
vod8
chat8
producer8
instagram7
replay7
golang7
kafka7
redpanda7
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matthewdickson1/benthos
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
pixie11123/OlympicRecords
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.