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Ben Zo

Co-Founder

Brooklyn, New York, United States14 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led successful product expansions in Fintech.
  • Developed innovative audio processing tools.
  • Managed teams to deliver complex projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Healthcare software engineer with strong leadership and project management skills.

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Experience

14 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Zo

Zofounder

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Brooklyn, New York, United States

  • personal AI computing // reserve your handle at https://zo.computer

Stripe

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Oct 2022Sep 2023 · 11 mos

  • Connect Onboarding - switched to a small, underwater team, turned it around, and shipped embeddable KYC flows for onboarding accounts

Engineering Lead

Jan 2022Oct 2022 · 9 mos

  • Managing managers. Grew 1 staff eng to EM, managed 3 EMs, projects included expanding payout country coverage, crypto payouts, and building products for solo professionals and creator platforms.
  • Payouts Products (Aug'22 → Sep'22)
  • Express (MoM) (Jan'21 → Aug'22)

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2018Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Connect
  • Express Dashboard (Mar'21 → Dec'21)
  • Mobile
  • Dashboard Mobile (Mar'20 → Jan'22)
  • Payments Mobile (Mar'20 → Aug'21)
  • Built the mobile payment element, refreshed the Dashboard app, scaled mobile investment across the company, hired/grew 2 EMs, partnered with @shreyas
  • https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=ios&ui=payment-sheet
  • Terminal
  • Terminal Global Expansion (Jan'20 → Aug'20)
  • Terminal Integration Experience (Oct'18 → May'20)
  • Launched GA in the US, expanded to CA & UK, onboarded 2 new EMs

Software Engineer

Jun 2015Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Terminal - founding engineer (May'17 → Oct'18)
  • Mobile - SDK, Dashboard app (Jun'15 → May'17)
  • https://github.com/stripe/stripe-terminal-ios/commits?author=bg-stripe
  • https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ios/commits?author=bg-stripe

Sum.com

Software Engineer

Aug 2014May 2015 · 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Joined a tiny startup building a wearable and mobile app. We were aiming for a premium Apple Health/Fitness/Watch-style experience, with sensors and health insights previously unavailable in the market... then Apple launched the watch and the project was canceled.

Venmo

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Venmo mobile app (redesign, introducing Swift) and developer products

Radcliffe institute for advanced study at harvard university

Research Partner

Sep 2012Mar 2013 · 6 mos · Cambridge, MA

  • Developed alternate notation and audio processing tools (Python, Max/MSP)

Velti

Software Development Intern

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Nyu school of medicine

Research Data Associate

Sep 2010Aug 2011 · 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Research assistant in the Laboratory for Translational Audio Research:
  • custom psychoacoustics software to obtain pitch perception and speech-in-noise measures with cochlear implant users (Matlab)
  • a new fitting system prototype for cochlear implant users (C++)

Johns hopkins school of medicine

Research Assistant

Jun 2009Aug 2009 · 2 mos · Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Studied polyphonic pitch perception in cochlear implant users

Education

Harvard University

Neurobiology — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2013

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