# Kyle McCrohan > Senior Software Engineer at Stripe Location: Issaquah, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylemccrohan I am a full stack software engineer who thrives in designing, creating, and testing quality solutions to complex challenges. I am a strong leader and excel in team environments where communication is important. I love working outside of the typical scope of an engineer, doing whatever it takes to make the business successful. I take pride in producing quality work that impacts people in a positive manner. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer, Capital Foundations @ Stripe Jan 2025 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States * Architected a system to ensure the resilience of Stripe Capital by splitting originations with a second banking partner. * Supported enhancements in Capital Markets and reporting. * Drove operational excellence and improvements with a lending partner, while doubling the volume of originations. ### Founder @ Cascade Backcountry Alliance Jan 2022 – Present | Greater Seattle Area * Founded a non-profit dedicated to improving and maintaining access for winter backcountry skiers and snowshoers in the Pacific Northwest. * Recruited and build a Board of 12 volunteers. * Created structure and processes for the Board. * Led strategic planning to figure out how we could be effective. * Developed relationships with land managers and key organizational partners. ### Grasstops Collective Advocacy Member @ Outdoors Alliance Jan 2024 – Present * Learn to build relationships with policy makes for recreation and conservation priorities. * Identify opportunities to mobilize community around these issues. ### Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Rupa Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Issaquah, Washington, United States * Led a team of four engineers building Rupa's core access control system, managing ~1mil resources and ~300k users in a secure, scalable, extendable way. * Designed and implemented a generic internal platform that supports load shifting between different external partners, ensuring redundancy and longevity of a key business system. * Performed complex zero-downtime user account migrations on ~400k users to restructure data models to support a variety of patient / practitioner use cases. * Designed convenient and secure sign up flows to optimize for user retention and experience. * Created an on-demand ordering rights engine to improve accuracy and clarity for customers. Completely removed bugs related to ordering rights, previously an issue for customer retention. * Managed onboarding and ramp-up of new teammates and contractors. * Gave strategic input on new product development and tech debt investment, working with the heads of Product and Engineering to determine the roadmap. * Designed systems architecture interview, helped grow the engineering team from 5 to 12. ### Software Engineer - Backend Geospatial @ The Climate Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle WA * Tech lead for a team of 6 for major data pipeline redesign involving visualization of farming equipment machine data. * Maintain large scale satellite imagery ingestion pipeline processing >1mil images per day. * Lead a migration of the email sending service from Mailchimp to AWS SES. * Mentored a summer intern, daily check ups and support, led to a full time offer. ### Software Development Engineer in Test - Geospatial @ The Climate Corporation Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, WA · Led verification of a new complex pipeline system, identified bugs, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks. Reduced costs by 27x. · Leader in setting up Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CICD) Pipelines. · Developed novel internal approach to testing SQS based services. · Wrote, executed, and analyzed load testing of new services using scala gatling library. · Led hackathon project related to automating localization testing of strings and units. · Automated statistical analysis of client characteristics in expansion to new geographies. ### Student @ Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Spokane, Washington Area · Trained in facilitating innovation, pitching projects, and effective leadership. · Worked collaboratively in small groups on large class projects. · Presented a startup idea at Spokane Startup Weekend, took 3rd place. ### Co-Founder, Developer, Operations Manager @ Moder LLC Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Spokane, Washington Area · Developed front and middle end of Chow Chow, iOS app for school dining hall, 500+ downloads. · Leader of legal and financial operations, incorporated company. · Contracted development of commercial applications for clients, released multiple client apps. · Designed networking layer for multiple applications to create effective client-server communication. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Climate Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Seattle · Designed and developed cross-platform testing framework implementing model based testing. · Wrote iOS UI Tests using XCTest framework to improve test code coverage. · Integrated tests into Continuous Integration system using Jenkins and Stashbot to prevent regression. · Created automated scientific validation testing system that collected internal data and performed statistical analysis to verify expected behavior occurs. · Collaborated with scientists and product teams to develop inter-team solutions. ### Basketball Referee @ Northshore Youth Basketball Association Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 | Woodinville, WA Experience managing a game, handling behavioral issues with adults, communicating to younger athletes grades 3-12. Received Rookie Referee of the Year Award in 2011 for strong development and potential. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Intermec by Honeywell Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Lynnwood, WA · Developed test automation software in VBA, Android JUnit, and windows phone 8.1. · Create demo Android App for customers to demonstrate new proprietary scanning feature. ### Robotics Mentor @ Koakanee Elementary School Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Woodinville, WA Mentored students grades 3-6 to Lego Mindstorms Robotics, facilitated experimental learning, monitored behavior, introduced basic programming and engineering. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering Gonzaga University ### Full IB Diploma Inglemoor High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-mccrohan-474865a2 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylemccrohan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylemccrohan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05