Summary
Nigel Ellis is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building large-scale databases, infrastructure, and revenue systems, currently serving as Technical Lead for Revenue & Financial Management at Stripe. His career includes senior technical and leadership roles at Coda—where he led infrastructure and served as Head of Engineering—and a long tenure at Microsoft working on SQL Server, WinFS, and developer tools. Nigel combines deep systems and data platform expertise with product-minded leadership, consistently shipping reliable, auditable systems that power billing and financial workflows. Based in Redmond, he blends enterprise-scale instincts from Microsoft with startup agility from Coda and Stripe. Notably, his background spans both hands-on architecture and people leadership, enabling him to bridge complex technical design with organizational delivery.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
English