Thomas King
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas King is an engineering manager at Stripe with 11 years of experience building and leading backend-focused teams across payments and risk systems. He progressed through senior and staff engineering roles at Stripe after leading post-processing groups (treasury, disputes, risk) at Braintree, blending deep domain knowledge in financial systems with hands-on software delivery. Based in Chicago, he brings full-stack roots from earlier work at Accenture and Raise.com but specializes in architecting reliable, scalable backend services for high-throughput payment platforms. Known for translating complex compliance and risk requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions, he emphasizes operational resilience and cross-functional collaboration. His mechanical engineering background gives him a systems-oriented mindset that informs how he decomposes and automates intricate workflows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (18)
fixed-width9
width9
data-format8
parser7
go-micro6
floating-point6
bulk-insert6
nitro6
nom6
golang4
rpc4
rust4
insert4
micro3
microservices3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
twking7/fixed_width
Jul 2018 - Jun 2022
A fixed width data parser for Rust.
Contributions:5 reviews, 34 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 11 months
rustfixed-widthwidthdata-formatparser
twking7/adventofcode2017
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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