Micah Koga
Director Of Engineering at Venmo
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarMicah Koga is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling payments and consumer fintech platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Venmo in Lisbon. He rose through technical and management ranks at Venmo—from Group Tech Lead to Principal roles—demonstrating deep expertise in application architecture and cross-functional delivery. His background includes hands-on engineering at Braintree and PayPal, giving him a strong foundation in payments systems and growth-focused product engineering. Known for bridging technical strategy with team development, he consistently moves teams from prototype to production at scale. Based in Portugal, he brings a global perspective to U.S.-centric fintech operations and a pragmatic emphasis on reliable, user-facing systems. Beyond titles, his career shows a pattern of evolving from individual contributor to strategic leader while retaining a focus on architecture and operational excellence.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (38)
braintree9
credit9
tmux8
ruby8
mastercard8
visa8
payment-service8
powerline8
credit-card7
payment-gateway7
linux7
homebrew7
payment-processing7
adyen7
macos6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mkoga/tmux-solarized
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
A Solarized Light Tmux Theme.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 5 years 5 months
lightsolarized-lighttmuxsolarizedtmux-theme
mkoga/coveralls-demo
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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