Brendan Linn
Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBrendan Linn is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building servers, language tools, and core infrastructure across startups and large tech firms. Based in San Francisco, he has shipped backend systems at Cash App and Google and now works on payments infrastructure at Stripe. His background spans languages and paradigms—from Java and Scala game backends to Go servers and production-grade infrastructure—underscored by an MS in Computer Science and an AB in Linguistics. Brendan combines production-focused reliability with a language- and tooling-oriented mindset, often tackling the developer-facing layers that make large systems easier to build and reason about.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York UniversityAB, Linguistics, AB, Linguistics at Harvard University
Github Skills (131)
http10
protoc10
jooq10
proto10
code-generation10
microservices10
code-generator10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
jpa10
scalable10
protobuf10
grpc10
server-side10
closure10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Ubehebe/bazel-runfiles-server
Apr 2019 - May 2019
ibazel livereload superpowers for any Starlark rule
Contributions:90 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
livereloadstarlark
Ubehebe/r5js
Jul 2011 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2821 commits, 205 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.