Summary
Praful Mathur is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building financial and productivity platforms, currently a founding engineer at Column focused on creating a developer-centric bank. He previously drove bank and capital markets engineering at Affirm and worked on Office 365 systems at Microsoft, giving him deep experience in scalable, secure back-end systems and fintech compliance constraints. Praful blends startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering practices, shipping production systems that bridge developer experience and regulated financial infrastructure. Based in San Francisco and trained in computer science at the University of Michigan, he brings a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to platform design. An early-stage builder, he’s comfortable operating across the stack and translating complex domain requirements into developer-friendly APIs and services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Michigan