Conner Bean
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engineering leader for @stripe organizations, prev aws ¦ revitalizing Detroit @woodwardtechco ¦ helping engineers prep for interviews @ https://t.co/wrnT04p8iD
Detroit, MI
Joined February 2011
I cannot stress enough: it's so important to continue interviewing, even if you are comfortable in your role and don't plan on leaving Doesn't have to be crazy, take 2-3 interviews per quarter Keeping your interview muscle strong is critical especially in today's day and age
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Cozy Bars to Ride Out 29-40 Inches of Snow. Houghton/Calumet, Michigan
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my rule of locations is simple: live in a place that gives you a reason to wear a turtleneck
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Today is one of my favorite days of the year: our end of year internal conference. This is my 4th one, and the talent and depth of people here continues to blow my mind I've attended talks from fellow Stripes who are also bookstore owners, sommeliers, and even the Mayor of a
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looking for 2-3 alpha testers for @stripe terraform. a few use cases: - declare your stripe configuration in code - template production and multiple sandboxes - deploy, diff, and version various stripe setups - as a platform, let users “vibe config” new accounts from prompts
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Today I am proud to announce a total joint donation of $401,000,100 from myself and Greg Williams, founder of Acrisure, to the Spartan NIL fund Excited for the future and happy to contribute. Go Green!
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I'm spending the day at Michigan State University judging computer science capstone projects The year-over-year growth of students who are using Vercel/Next.js in their projects is insane I would estimate ~600-700% growth
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this is sadly more common than you'd like to see here in Detroit many folks in similar positions, all left high and dry, after relying on pensions that evaporated right in front of them but GM is "unable to afford the additional financial burden"
NEW: Internet users raise over $1.2M for an 88-year-old US Army veteran to help him retire after his pension was wiped out. Ed Bambas lost his wife 7 years ago and is now working 40 hours a week to make ends meet. Bambas retired from General Motors in 1999, expecting to have
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this is why systems at scale are fun what can be even more fun is scaling systems to this point and beyond! some of my favorite career moments have been growing services to 1B+ events per day, and often even to 100x that (100k+ events/requests per second)
I work on a system that processes 1B+/day events. Increasing latency even by 1ms per event degrades overall processing time by 277+ hours (11+ days). The scale is insane.
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sir, can i interest you in a Stripe Organization
Second day at Stripe and I'm already learning about the existence of dope product offerings: https://t.co/awenncUceW
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it's hard to diminish the value that AI tools can bring but far too many people are relying on it to avoid unavoidable work! you can't have it formulate your own thoughts for you, for example ideation and creativity isn't its strength either use it as a tool, not as a crutch
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how long until regulations slam platforms like polymarket and kalshi? feels like only a matter of when, not if
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for BFCM this year we built a city where the numbers are live and every rooftop has a logo garden all being streamed 24/7 from now until tuesday
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a testament to the work of millions of builders to ship their projects, passions, and creativity happy and fortunate to play a (small) part in it!
Businesses on @stripe, collectively, have already eclipsed all of Black Friday 2024 revenue by—double checks sql query—9:36am PT(!!). Go internet go. 📈
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so cool
For Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, we created a miniature city with real-time data to celebrate businesses building on Stripe.
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I just live the most beautiful life man infinitely and eternally blessed and grateful
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