Marcus Chen
● ActiveSenior FDE · A-tierStaff Engineer · Stripe · San Francisco · last touch 4d ago via Granola
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WHY HE MATCHES
Staff engineer with six years at Stripe across Payments Infrastructure and Treasury, scaled the ledger to handle 40M+ daily transactions, and previously built the data platform at Segment from 8 engineers to 30. Systems thinker with a shipped track record on high-stakes infra — the kind of engineer Series A AI companies hire as employee #5 to #15 to own a vertical.
RECENT SIGNALS
Shipped ledger-rs rewrite to production
Rust port of core ledger · 40M txns/day · 3 days ago
Posted about leaving big-co for early-stage
'The reps-per-week ratio at a 5-person startup is unmatchable' · 412 reactions · 11d
Granola: 'reach back out in Q2'
4 Feb call · comp $220–260 + 0.4–0.6% · 4d ago
OPEN PROMISES
Send Retell JD by Tuesday · OVERDUE 2 DAYS
Marcus to send Q3 availability
THREAD HISTORY
📞Granola call — Discussed Retell role, comp expectations4 Feb
✉️Email reply — Re: Retell intro call notes7 Feb
📅Calendar invite — Holly + Marcus quick synctoday 10am
✉️Email sent — Sending JD attached8 Feb
💬LinkedIn message — 'Hey, you mentioned the Anthropic team…'12 Jan
LOGISTICS
LocationSan Francisco
Comp$220–260 + 0.4–0.6%
StageSeries A/B, ≤30 people
Notice4 weeks
Work authUS citizen
IN PIPELINE FOR
Retell · FDE #4
Phone screen
Decagon · Sr SWE
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