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16 Best Stripe Developers

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Stripe’s success is driven by a global network of developers, founders, and advocates who built tools, taught integrations, and scaled products with its APIs, shaping the ecosystem.

Below is a ranked list of the most influential Stripe developers globally, selected for their technical leadership, community impact, and direct contributions to Stripe’s widespread adoption.

  1. Patrick Collison
  2. John Collison
  3. Romain Huet
  4. Jonas Bark
  5. Shawn Wang
  6. Patrick McKenzie
  7. Brandur Leach
  8. Adrian Macneil
  9. Taylor Otwell
  10. Jerome Leclanche
  11. Ricardo Sánchez Gregorio
  12. Sia Karamalegos
  13. Alexander Kavanaugh
  14. CJ Avilla
  15. Shola Akinlade
  16. Amber Feng

Now, let’s delve deeper into their achievements and contributions.

Patrick Collison

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Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments.

Nationality: Irish

Patrick is Stripe’s co-founder and CEO, an Irish programmer who launched the online payments platform with his brother in 2010.

A former winner of the Young Scientist of the Year award, Collison was a teenage coding prodigy who sold his first startup for $5 million at age 19. Under his leadership, Stripe’s developer-friendly APIs and focus on seamless integrations have revolutionized online payments. Patrick remains deeply technical, fostering Stripe’s engineering culture and often speaking on API design and fintech innovation.

John Collison

16 Best Stripe Developers

Nationality: Irish

John is Stripe’s co-founder and president, and was the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in 2016.

An Irish entrepreneur and MIT alum, John built and sold an earlier company (Auctomatic) by age 18 before creating Stripe in 2010 alongside Patrick. At Stripe, he has driven global expansion and strategic partnerships (like Shopify Payments) with a hands-on approach to product engineering. John’s deep knowledge of payment infrastructure and ability to scale developer tools have been key to Stripe’s success.

Romain Huet

Nationality: French

Romain led Stripe’s global developer relations team, serving as the bridge between Stripe’s engineering and its developer community.

A French engineer and startup CTO prior to Stripe, he joined in 2015 to scale Stripe’s outreach to developers worldwide. Huet evangelized Stripe’s APIs through talks, technical content, and open-source samples, helping thousands of developers integrate complex payment features with ease. He later became a Product Lead at Stripe, leveraging his firsthand insight into developer needs to shape Stripe’s platform.

Jonas Bark

Nationality: German

Jonas is a German developer and Stripe Community Expert who co-created the Flutter Stripe plugin, bringing Stripe’s payments to Flutter mobile apps.

As Flutter gained popularity, Jonas helped fill a critical gap by developing a community-driven Stripe SDK for Dart/Flutter, enabling cross-platform apps to accept payments with a native feel. He collaborated with Stripe engineers to keep the package up-to-date as Stripe’s API evolved. Today, the Flutter Stripe library (maintained by Bark and others) is the go-to solution for Flutter developers integrating Stripe, reflecting Jonas’s passion for both the Flutter ecosystem and Stripe’s technology.

Shawn Wang

Documentation is not just docs — it’s onboarding, tutorials, references, and examples. It’s a product.

Nationality: Singaporean

Shawn (known as swyx) is a developer and writer who became a Stripe Community Expert through his advocacy for great developer experiences.

Famous for his work in the React and Svelte communities, swyx brought his community-building skills to Stripe by creating tutorials and resources that demystify Stripe’s APIs for web developers. He has highlighted Stripe in his talks and articles on serverless payments and Jamstack integrations. Shawn’s influence as a GitHub Star and community leader, combined with his public praise for Stripe’s developer docs and DX, has made him an unofficial Stripe ambassador in front-end circles.

Patrick McKenzie

16 Best Stripe Developers

Nationality: American

Better known as “patio11”, Patrick is a renowned software blogger and entrepreneur who joined Stripe to work on the Atlas program and developer education.

Before Stripe, he gained fame for his writings on software businesses and for building small apps (like Bingo Card Creator) that showcased mastery of billing and payments. At Stripe (2016–2021), McKenzie leveraged his expertise to help startups launch online businesses (via Stripe Atlas) and authored extensive content demystifying online payments. He continues as an advisor to Stripe, advocating for developers and sharing best practices in fintech.

Brandur Leach

Nationality: American

Brandur is an ex-Stripe infrastructure engineer known for his influential writings on API design and scalability.

At Stripe, he worked on the API platform and helped architect features like idempotency keys and versioning. Brandur often shared deep technical insights on his blog (brandur.org) – for instance, explaining Stripe’s approach to API versioning and rate-limiting – which have educated the broader developer community. Now an engineer at a database company, he remains a respected voice on building robust payment APIs and draws on his Stripe experience to guide others.

Adrian Macneil

Nationality: Australian

Adrian is an Australian software engineer who created Omnipay, an open-source PHP payments library that supports dozens of gateways – with Stripe as one of the first and most used integrations.

Omnipay’s Stripe driver (authored by Macneil) offered a clean, unified API for PHP developers to charge cards and handle webhooks across different payment providers. Adrian’s work predated official Stripe libraries in some cases and influenced Stripe’s early adoption in the PHP community. He later founded companies in developer tooling, but his open-source payments code (now maintained by the community) remains widely used.

Taylor Otwell

16 Best Stripe Developers

Nationality: American

Taylor is the creator of Laravel, a popular PHP web framework, and has integrated Stripe deeply into the Laravel ecosystem.

He developed Laravel Cashier, an open-source library that provides an expressive interface to Stripe’s subscription billing services. Cashier has made it simple for tens of thousands of PHP developers to manage Stripe subscriptions, coupons, and invoices with minimal code. Otwell, a startup founder himself, built on Stripe’s API to turn complex billing logic into a straightforward, elegant package. His contributions have significantly lowered the barrier for PHP apps to adopt Stripe.

Jerome Leclanche

Nationality: French

Jerome is a software engineer and co-maintainer of dj-stripe alongside Alex Kavanaugh.

A Python/Django veteran, Leclanche has been instrumental in evolving dj-stripe to keep up with Stripe’s expanding API (such as supporting Stripe Connect and Checkout sessions). He has authored multiple Django libraries and brings that experience to ensure dj-stripe remains robust and flexible. By translating Stripe’s API models into Django constructs, Jerome has empowered many startups to build subscription services and marketplaces on Stripe without reimplementing low-level details.

Ricardo Sanchez Gregorio

Nationality: Spanish

Ricardo is a Spanish web developer who created ngx-stripe, the dominant Angular library for Stripe integrations.

As a Stripe Community Expert for Angular, he built ngx-stripe to wrap Stripe.js Elements and Payment Intents into idiomatic Angular components and services. The library has greatly simplified accepting payments in Angular applications, handling everything from tokenization to checkout flows. Ricardo’s contributions (open-sourced on GitHub under his alias richnologies) and community support have been recognized by Stripe, naming him an official Community Expert.

Sia Karamalegos

16 Best Stripe Developers

Nationality: American

Sia is a front-end developer and international speaker who is also recognized as a Stripe Community Expert.

While known for her web performance work at Shopify, Sia has leveraged Stripe in Jamstack and e-commerce projects and has written about integrating Stripe for payments on the web. She co-organizes developer meetups and often educates fellow developers on using modern APIs (including Stripe’s) effectively. Her multifaceted expertise (Google Developer Expert, etc.) and advocacy for Stripe’s technology in the Jamstack community earned her the Stripe Expert title, helping more developers discover Stripe’s capabilities.

Alexander Kavanaugh

Nationality: American

Alex is the co-maintainer of dj-stripe, a popular Django application that syncs Stripe data into Django models for easy access.

He has led the development of dj-stripe to support new Stripe API versions and features, enabling Python/Django developers to use Stripe for subscriptions and payments with minimal boilerplate. Kavanaugh’s work bridges the gap between Stripe’s API and the Django ORM, letting developers treat Stripe objects (customers, charges, etc.) as local database models. His open-source leadership on dj-stripe (and fintech expertise) has made advanced Stripe integration much more accessible in the Python web community.

CJ Avilla

Nationality: American

CJ is a software engineer who served as a Developer Advocate at Stripe, where he produced extensive learning material to help developers integrate Stripe.

He ran the official Stripe Developers YouTube channel, live-coded many Stripe sample apps, and authored guides for Stripe’s Ruby and Node client libraries. CJ’s background in teaching (as a coding bootcamp instructor) made him adept at breaking down complex tasks like Stripe Connect onboarding or building a subscription service into approachable tutorials. After Stripe, he continues to build with Stripe at his startup, exemplifying the modern “developer advocate who codes in production.”

Shola Akinlade

16 Best Stripe Developers

Nationality: Nigerian

Shola is a Nigerian software engineer turned fintech founder who co-founded Paystack, a payments startup often dubbed “Africa’s Stripe”.

In 2020, Stripe acquired Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African market. Shola’s team built Paystack with a Stripe-like developer experience, enabling thousands of African merchants to accept online payments easily. After acquisition, he and his co-founder joined Stripe’s leadership, bringing deep regional expertise. Shola’s story – from coding banking integrations in Lagos to joining forces with Stripe – highlights his Stripe-level expertise in payments and developer APIs.

Amber Feng

Nationality: American

Amber is an early Stripe engineer famous for writing most of the code for Stripe Connect, the product that enables platforms like Lyft and Shopify to pay out to sellers.

As one of Stripe’s first employees, Amber built foundational systems in Stripe’s API (handling complex money movement between users) and later headed Stripe’s financial infrastructure engineering. Her work on Connect in 2012–2013 was pivotal for Stripe’s expansion into marketplaces. Amber’s technical and leadership contributions earned her a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. She has since co-founded a startup, but her legacy includes the scalable architecture behind Stripe Connect that many large companies rely on.

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