Summary
Matthew Patterson is a senior software engineer in Chicago with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems and billing platforms. At Stripe since 2022, he drives robust, scalable software and previously at GitHub led the development of usage-based billing foundations, including a proof-of-concept for GitHub Actions, a Kafka-based streaming pipeline for hundreds of millions of usage events, and an independent service for storing, rating, and submitting usage data for invoicing. He also helped integrate billing workflows with Zuora and Stripe, shaped a five-year technical plan for the billing platform, and championed observability and self-healing practices. Earlier in his career, as an engineering manager at Braintree, he led an eight-person team delivering disputes APIs and bank integrations for multiple regions. Outside of work, he is a private pilot and enjoys fitness, travel, skiing, and hiking.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting, Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish