Raffi Sarkissian
Co-Founder (Product) at Lago (YCS21)
Paris, Ile-de-France, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaffi Sarkissian is a product-focused founder and growth-driven operator with 9+ years building monetization and billing systems for fintech and SaaS businesses, currently co-founding Lago to deliver an open-source, usage-based billing API as a Stripe alternative. He combines hands-on product management and design sensibilities with growth engineering experience from leading monetization, billing, BI, CRM and revenue teams at Qonto. Raffi’s background spans founding a mobile payments startup, scaling growth operations, and participating in YC S21, giving him rare end-to-end insight from customer acquisition to complex pricing architecture. Known for translating nuanced pricing models into scalable backend workflows, he prioritizes making billing adapt to business needs rather than forcing businesses to adapt to billing constraints.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
YC S21, YC S21 at Y CombinatorCommunication Manager Communication - Digital Communication, Communication Manager Communication - Digital Communication at Institut Supérieur Européen de Gestion - Lyon
French, English, Spanish, arménien, Italian
Github Skills (21)
billing10
stripe10
open-source10
analytics10
ruby10
metering10
storekit10
fintech10
recurly10
in-app-purchase10
receipt-validation10
react10
clickhouse10
go9
api8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
getlago/lago-doc
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:91 reviews, 209 PRs, 180 pushes in 1 year 9 months
getlago/lago-openapi
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Open API specification for Lago project
Contributions:12 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
apispecificationlagoapi-specificationopen-api
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