Summary
Yixi Zhang is a senior engineering manager with 13 years of experience building payment and infrastructure systems across startups and hyperscale companies. Currently leading Money Movement and Treasury at Rippling after multi-year engineering leadership at Stripe (Payouts and Radar), she combines deep payments domain expertise with hands-on backend and testing-infrastructure experience from roles at Woven, SingleStore, and Facebook. She enjoys programming languages and brings a strong technical pedigree with graduate degrees from Northwestern and RPI and an electrical engineering undergraduate background. Known for hiring and scaling senior technical talent (including Staff-level roles), she pairs people leadership with pragmatic ownership of complex, highly reliable financial systems. Based in San Francisco, she moves comfortably between founding-engineer scrappiness and production-grade processes at large organizations. An uncommon thread in her career is sustained focus on testing and infra early on, which informs her approach to resilient money-movement platforms today.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese