# Reid Buzby

> Software Engineer @ Stripe

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building Stripe’s core compute infrastructure on Kubernetes and AWS, powering Stripe’s most critical workloads and thousands of services.

### Tech Lead @ Ponto
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Tech lead for a team of 7 engineers focusing on backend payment processing features, general backend infrastructure, and reliability. Following a company wide pivot from an enterprise to a consumer product, I led the re-architecture and implementation of our engineering systems leading to a completely new product launch in under 3 months.

### Founding Software Engineer @ Ponto
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA
Fintech startup backed by $32M in funding from General Catalyst, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) and others.

First employee at Ponto. Built a B2B payment processing system from scratch with the founding team. Responsible for the design and implementation of 10+ microservices that provided the core payment processing and pricing services powering the product. Led founding reliability and infrastructure efforts, scaling our API from 0 to 100 RPS and 99.9% availability. Helped grow the engineering team to 16 people.

### Software Engineer @ Rethink
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Seed stage startup building a cloud native file browser. 3rd engineering hire. Ran out of funding in July 2021.

### Professional Golfer @ PGA TOUR
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Jupiter, Florida, United States
Pursued my childhood dream of playing professional golf. Qualified for PGA Tour Canada

### Software Engineer @ Sunrun
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
Interned on and off for several years both during summer breaks and while in school.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science
Middlebury College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/reid-buzby

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Source: https://flows.cv/reid
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/reid/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22