# Greg Silin > Software Engineer | FinTech, Risk, Distributed Systems Location: San Anselmo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gregsilin Experienced engineer & technical leader with experience building & scaling backend systems. I strive to deliver value to stakeholders & customers quickly. In my experience, this can be achieved by building an engineering culture of test automation, investing into CI/CD pipelines, focusing on MVP and iterating on the learnings from the wild. As a technical leader, I aspire conscious leadership through curious mindset and build relationships based on trust and empathy. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Oscilar Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States Building the next generation risk platform at Oscilar ### Senior Software Engineer, Card Payments @ Stripe Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Our team is responsible for authorization and clearing global card payment processing volume on the “big four” card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex) as well as regional providers in LATAM. * Drove a multi-phase cross-team compliance integration update with a major network, allowing Stripe to stay compliant, avoid seven-figure fines and maintain the integrity of authorization and clearing transaction data. * Team lead for the bi-annual Network Updates compliance for the four major networks (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, AmEx). Analyzed requirements, drove timelines and compliance for network mandates, allowing Stripe to operate in compliance with the network and regional government rules, avoid millions in fines, and stay competitive as a card payment processor. * Helped launch a major enterprise user in a new market with many integration firsts for Stripe in the region, opening up 100% processing volume growth potential. * Drove team ownership transition and Black Friday operational readiness of a key charge-path transaction routing service. Black Friday event is Stripe’s largest daily payment processing volume of the year, successfully supporting $18B in processing volume in 2023 * Onboarded a college new hire, empowering them to deliver a successful first project critical to the team's operational & observability needs. * Drove improvements to the team processes, such as establishing a well-received team retrospective. ### Engineering Manager, Internal Business Tools @ Tally Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area * Led a full stack team building internal tooling & applications for payment operations, KYC, fraud, credit operations & customer success functions among others * Improved usability and manual processes up to 15% through automation via internal tooling. * Grew team from three to six engineers and contractors. * Drove PCI compliance projects for services owned by the team. ### Technical Lead @ Tally Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area * Led the migration of Tally's legacy banking ledgers to a scalable architecture, resulting in 300% query performance in app queries. Delivered migration of Tally balances for all users on time and with 99.9% accuracy * Led the development of banking ledgers to track user balances by individual disbursements from conception to mvp to adoption. Backfilled 1 billion ledger entries into the new architecture with > 99% accuracy. * Design & implementation of the payment components for Tally's first partnership with a national bank * Improved the engineering org on-call schedule to allow ownership of services & on-call support by team ### Senior Backend Engineer @ Tally Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area * First backend engineer outside the founding team. Designed & deployed services & frameworks that saw the company grow from Series A to Series D * Project management & tech lead responsibilities on key company initiatives, working with the team to deliver on time and with quality. * Mentor other engineers on the team to empower ownership & productivity ### Sr Platform Engineer @ Nitro, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States * First Scala engineer at Nitro. * Led re-architecting a full stack Java monolith app into a services-based architecture powered by the Scala stack. * Facilitated onboarding a team of Java engineers onto the Scala stack through internal mentoring & training * Worked with PM & leadership to shape the technical roadmap and strategy of the team. * Lead engineer on Nitro's first data pipeline. Implemented first internal pipelines using the AWS Kinesis Firehose. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Klout Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California, United States * Introduced cinch.me real-time mobile advising platform that enables users to attain personalized real-time advice from Klout influencers. * Delivered exceptional support to re-architect / re-implement legacy MySQL-based system to MongoDB-based solution for scaling to 5x user base. * Klout core API, building infrastructure & features such as the Instant Score, a real-time Facebook scoring feature. * Klout Perks, a web & mobile-based product that helps brands amplify engagement & awareness by targeting highly impactful Klout influencers. * Helped rearchitect & reimplement the legacy MySQL-based system to a MongoDB-based solution to scale to 5x user base ### Senior Backend Engineer @ Jive Software Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Backend Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, California, United States AdECN Ad Exchange ### Backend Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Redmond, Washington, United States Display Advertising Platform Team ### Software Engineer Intern @ Intuit Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 ### Software Engineer In Test Intern @ Expedia Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 ## Education ### BA in Applied Math with Comp Sci cluster University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gregsilin - Website: https://www.meettally.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/gregsilin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gregsilin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05