Payton Henson
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPayton Henson is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building payments and large-scale systems, currently focused on Stripe Connect in San Francisco. His career spans high-impact roles at Stripe, Palantir (forward-deployed engineering), Amazon, and PayPal, giving him a mix of product-facing systems work and deep operational problem-solving. He brings hands-on expertise across front-end visualizations and backend services—early work included refactoring legacy dashboards and advanced Google Maps integrations—while now shipping robust platform features for merchant and platform flows. A Georgetown graduate in Computer Science and Economics, Payton pairs technical breadth with a knack for translating complex business requirements into reliable production software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Economics at Georgetown University
English, Spanish
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Github contributions (5)
PaytonHenson/BayesNet
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
ishaan381/Lasso.io
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:95 commits, 66 PRs, 65 pushes in 14 days
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