# Maya Sharafian

> Software engineer with leadership experience

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mayasharafian

I have 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, and co-founded Coil to let users support content creators with micropayments.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Mixpanel
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### CTO and Co-founder @ Coil
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Spun out of our team at Ripple, and grew to a 40 person company. Led the engineering organization. Established processes, codebase, and infrastructure from the ground up. Ran the Research and Development team. Made direct contributions to critical areas of the codebase (TypeScript), infrastructure, and architecture. Contributed to the company’s open-source initiatives (interledger.org)

### Software Engineer @ Ripple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
Prototyped distributed payment systems and constructed proofs of concept of next-generation payment networks (interledger.org) in JavaScript and TypeScript. Wrote protocol specifications for payment systems. This work was eventually spun out into Coil Technologies.

### Engineering Intern @ Ripple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Developed the Interledger protocol and performed developer outreach at conferences.

### Tutor and Lab Assistant @ Reed College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Portland OR
Tutored students in intermediate-level CS classes and managed software installation and maintenance for a computer lab.

### Engineering Intern @ Ripple
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Contributed to open source cryptography libraries in JavaScript. Developed open source libraries for interfacing with the XRP cryptocurrency.


## Education
### Math/Computer Science
Reed College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maya-sharafian-0712a6119
- Website: http://bensha256.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22