Stephen Jayakar
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Jayakar is a full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing platforms and APIs, currently at Google after a multi-year tenure at Plaid. He combines backend API work—contributing to well-known Plaid client libraries in Ruby, Node, and Python—with frontend experience in React and GraphQL, shipping features across developer dashboards and integrations. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate based in San Francisco, he enjoys making complex systems accessible to users and has been exploring ways to bring recent AI advances into everyday products. Stephen blogs about his technical and personal explorations, revealing a habit of documenting trade-offs and learnings that informs his pragmatic engineering approach. His open-source contributions include maintaining OpenAPI-generated bindings and production releases for widely used Plaid SDKs, demonstrating attention to SDK ergonomics and backward-compatible evolution. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who bridges product needs and developer experience with clear, well-tested code.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyLongview High School
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Github Skills (23)
apim10
javascript10
lib10
python10
apidoc10
api-client10
typescript10
ruby10
release-management10
api10
plaid10
typescript-types10
rest-api10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
plaid/plaid-node
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Node bindings for Plaid
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 13 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen appears to be contributing to the OpenAPI generated code for the Plaid Node bindings. Their commits involve generating and updating code based on OpenAPI specifications, specifically focusing on the `index.js` and `api.ts` files. The changes reflect updates to the API, including new interfaces and functionalities, and incorporate various versions of the Plaid API. They also introduced retry logic for error handling in the test suite.
nodejsplaid
plaid/plaid-python
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Python bindings for Plaid
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 15 reviews, 25 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `plaid-python` library, which provides Python bindings for the Plaid API. They focused on updating the library to work with generated internal components and new versions, including beta releases. These updates involved modifications to data models, API definitions, and potentially internal libraries that interact with the Plaid API. The user also made changes to address environment specific development needs.
api-clientapipythonpython-bindingsplaid
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