Patrick Cieplak
Product Engineer, Connect at Stripe
California, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatrick Cieplak is a product-focused engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating payments and fintech systems, currently shaping Connect at Stripe. His background combines hands-on backend engineering, entrepreneurial product development, and security leadership—having served as Lead Backend Engineer and CISO at Finix—so he understands both product velocity and operational risk. Patrick began his career bridging finance and engineering after studying finance and math, which gives him a practical edge designing compliant, scalable payment flows. Based in Maryland, he has repeatedly moved between startup scrappiness and enterprise-scale reliability, and he brings a habit of digging into low-level payment primitives to solve thorny integration problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Spanish
Github Skills (16)
compile9
otp7
erlang7
gleam6
linux5
erlang-otp4
websocket3
server3
beam3
emulation3
busybox2
api1
keylogger1
java1
gnu1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cieplak/Dotfiles
Apr 2013 - Jul 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes in 5 years 3 months
cieplak/jz
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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