# Martin Ek

> Software Engineer at Increase

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/martinek

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Increase
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Wrote Stripe's internal textbook on card payments.
• Led development in taking Stripe from 3 to 7 globally supported card brands.
• As a part of a team of four, re-built the entirety of our synchronous card payment processing stack.
• Built the first service outside of Stripe's monolith used on the critical API path.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Developed a new way of bringing funds into the Stripe ecosystem.
• Refactored an internal payments abstraction so that it could be used generically across Stripe. 
• Built an office seating map during a company hackathon, and finalized and released the project during the summer.

### Software Engineering Intern @ FINN.no – mulighetenes marked
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Oslo Area, Norway
• Developed a customer facing statistics dashboard for vendors at Norway’s largest classifieds advertisement website, FINN.no.
• Used React and D3.js to display insightful data about customers.
• Built multiple backend microservices utilizing Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and PostgreSQL.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Itera - MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Oslo Area, Norway
• Worked as a software consultant for the financial services company Storebrand on a team with five other summer interns.
• Developed a deployment pipeline to enable continuous delivery of changes all the way from testing to production.
• Node.js and PostgreSQL on the backend, React and Flux on the frontend.

### Software Engineering Intern @ EVRY Norge
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Oslo Area, Norway
• Developed a provisioning tool to make the process of creating and configuring large network infrastructures easier.
• Full-stack web development with Node.js, MySQL and AngularJS, with Python for general purpose scripting.
• Continued maintenance and development of the project part-time afterwards.


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018

### Visiting student in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ekmartinb
- Website: https://ekmartin.com
- GitHub: http://github.com/ekmartin

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Last updated: 2026-03-20