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Growing as an engineer at Stripe

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Many many moons ago, I wrote a blog post about what was like in my first 6 months at Stripe. Since then, a lot has happened including a whole pandemic and me spending every free hour writing my own book. Because of that and many more things, I never got to write a second piece to what I was initially hoping to be a once-a-year kind of blog post. Recently, I was kindly invited to give a talk about my career at Stripe at our Bucharest office opening event and that triggered the writer in me again. This is an expanded version of that talk where I shared how I grew and continue to grow as an engineer at Stripe. After my first few months at Stripe I had the wonderful opportunity to join a very nascent project. That project eventually became what is now Stripe Tax. Tax is a complex topic and we all know the phrase “the only certainty in life is death and taxes”. However, when a business starts selling world-wide the tax complexity increases exponentially and they suddenly find themselves sub

Many many moons ago, I wrote a blog post about what was like in my first 6 months at Stripe. Since then, a lot has happened including a whole pandemic and me spending every free hour writing my own book . Because of that and many more things, I never got to write a second piece to what I was initially hoping to be a once-a-year kind of blog post. Recently, I was kindly invited to give a talk about my career at Stripe at our Bucharest office opening event and that triggered the writer in me again. This is an expanded version of that talk where I shared how I grew and continue to grow as an engi

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