Stefan Puhlmann is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating scalable systems across payments, infrastructure, and simulation domains. Currently at Stripe, he previously spent five years at Spotify maintaining large-scale subscription payment systems and contributing to service discovery, backend auth, and Java network libraries. His background spans low-level toolchains and hardware-adjacent projects—designing a C compiler and CPU simulator—to Unity3D-driven simulation and game AI, giving him a rare blend of systems, backend, and real-time simulation expertise. Based in Stockholm, he emphasizes code quality and practical design, consistently shipping integrations that deliver direct business value while guiding teams on technical practices.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 years 8 months
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