Sean Gottschalk
Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Gottschalk is a full-stack software engineer with five years of professional experience and a decade-plus career history building and leading cross-functional teams from Disney to Stripe. He designs and ships maintainable Java-based REST APIs and modern Node/JS frontends, while also contributing to infrastructure as code (Terraform) during cloud migrations. As a former tech lead he drove a major customer-facing UI revamp and helped bridge technical direction with business goals, combining hands-on coding with mentorship and team leadership. He has a track record of making complex systems more configurable and automating production workflows—skills honed while owning an attribution product and building automation frameworks early in his career. Based in Seattle and grounded in a CS and Mathematics background from the University of Washington, he favors clean, pragmatic engineering that enables fast iteration and scalable product launches.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelors, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Washington
Github Skills (19)
stripe10
stripe-payments10
api10
payment10
php-library10
stripe-api10
api-client9
java9
portable-class-library9
checker9
php9
nodejs9
class-library9
sorbet8
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
seang-stripe/sorbet
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
type-checkerrubychecker
stripe/stripe-php
May 2021 - May 2021
PHP library for the Stripe API.
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 2 commits in 1 day
apistripestripe-sdkphppayment
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