Christian Schafleitner
Staff Full Stack Engineer at Stripe
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Schafleitner is a Staff Full Stack Engineer with 17+ years building and scaling consumer-facing platforms, currently shaping payments and checkout experiences at Stripe. He brings deep full-stack expertise in React, TypeScript, backend services, experimentation platforms, and globalized user experiences honed through senior roles at Microsoft where he led web infrastructure, globalization, and the Teams client rewrite. A pragmatic engineering leader and mentor, he has a track record of improving startup-speed delivery inside large organizations—optimizing performance, flighting, and configurability for both consumer and highly secured government environments. His background in interactive media and shader development gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on UI fidelity and performance trade-offs. Located in Kirkland, WA, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on technical execution across web, backend, and developer-facing AI projects.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Digital Media, Interactive Media, Master of Science - MS, Digital Media, Interactive Media at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaGymnasium Steyr Werndlpark
German, English, Italian, Latin
Github Skills (34)
frontend8
react-native7
javascript7
ios7
android7
react7
mobile6
nodejs6
smartthings6
typescript6
timestamp5
azure5
js5
android-application5
browser5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chschafl/DronePan-Android
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
chschafl/SmartThingsPublic
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
SmartThings open-source DeviceTypeHandlers and SmartApps code
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
smartthingstabletcensorship-resistanceiotsmartwatch
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