Alex Rattray

Alex Rattray is a software engineer and entrepreneur with extensive experience in developer tools and API development. He worked at Stripe from June 2017 to April 2020 as a Software Engineer, focusing on developer platform and developer experience products.1

During his time at Stripe, Alex made several significant contributions:

1. Redesigned Stripe's API documentation
2. Shipped TypeScript definitions for Stripe's API
3. Designed a patent-pending codegen system for API client libraries
4. Co-built an internal "apollo-client for REST" powering the Stripe dashboard1

Additionally, Alex led incident response for one of Stripe's most severe degradations and assisted with venture investing and M&A as an engineer-in-residence on the corporate development team.1

Prior to Stripe, Alex had diverse experiences in software engineering and entrepreneurship:

• Software Engineer at Hired, Inc. (2015-2017)
• Senior Technology Fellow at Babajob (2015)
• Freelance Software Engineer at Toptal (2014-2015)
• Co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Emerald Exam (2012-2014)
• Co-founder of PennCycle, a campus bike share program (2011-2012)1

Alex graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2014 with a B.S. in Economics, focusing on Operations and Information Management.12

Currently, Alex is the founder of Stainless, a company based in New York that aims to bring Stripe-quality SDKs to companies of all sizes.3 He's leveraging his experience from Stripe, where he designed and co-built the API developer experience that became the quality standard in the developer community.3

Alex is also known for his contributions to open-source projects, including the popular code formatter Prettier, where he contributed to the no-semi option and much of the JSX behavior.24