2025 Stripe: Engineering Manager
Leading Code Forge and Code Review at Stripe: 11 direct reports, plus 3 cross-appointed engineers, spanning source control management and AI-assisted code review.
Ben Emdon
SCM, code review (AI), and dev productivity at Stripe. Previously GitHub.
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I lead two teams at Stripe: Code Forge and Code Review. Code Forge is the source control management every engineer touches daily, operating at the frontiers of Git scalability. Code Review builds the systems that drive higher quality and let engineers ship with confidence, with review speeds among the fastest in the industry.
Before Stripe I was at GitHub. I care about tools that feel fast and build confidence.
Off the clock: exploring cities near and far, film photography, an indefensible number of hours in video games, and maximum effort at karaoke.
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2024 Stripe: Senior Software Engineer
Built the centralized ownership infrastructure for code, service, and feature-flag ownership across every platform team. Led coordination for Stripe's Black Friday/Cyber Monday code freeze across 10+ infra teams.
2022 Stripe: Software Engineer
Pioneered stacked pull request tooling at Stripe, so engineers work on dependent changes without blocking on review. Built an auto-merge system that cut time-to-production by over an hour per pull request, company-wide.
2021 GitHub: Software Engineer
Owned and scaled checks, commit statuses, and deploy statuses, driving reliability and lowering tail latency. Shipped the command palette, slash commands, and an unreleased Block-Kit-style UI API.
2015 Carleton University: B.C.S. (Honours), Distinction
Honours thesis on GraphQL vs. REST, published by IEEE. Apple WWDC Scholar, 2017 and 2018.