WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

Throwing off the burdens of scale in engineering

David Singleton , Thomas Pamminger

David Singleton proves massive scale doesn't have to destroy engineering velocity. Discover how Stripe uses sensible architecture, friction logging, and AI to ruthlessly eliminate organizational drag.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 6 min

Building a developer-centric infrastructure for financial services

Eliminating friction for early-stage founders drove the initial product market fit for instant payment onboarding.

#2 about 5 min

Evolving engineering culture across global product teams

Expanding from single payment solutions to embedded financial services requires tight user feedback loops and rigorous operational excellence.

#3 about 5 min

Managing technical debt with sensible software architecture

Defining stable foundational primitives enables isolated product teams to ship code continuously without breaking core monetary flows.

#4 about 4 min

Equipping cross-functional teams with direct user context

Connecting software engineers directly with enterprise users maintains a visceral understanding of the architectural problems being solved.

#5 about 3 min

Ensuring API backward compatibility and robust domain modeling

Subjecting early product designs to internal review groups and friction logging safeguards long-term integration resilience.

#6 about 4 min

Hiring builders and accelerating early developer onboarding

Structured onboarding paths allow new engineering hires to successfully push code to production within their first few weeks.

#7 about 5 min

Providing scale through hosted flows and generative AI

Offering hosted payment interfaces and integrating conversational agents into documentation reduces unnecessary coding for platform users.

#8 about 2 min

Accelerating boilerplate test generation with AI pair programming

Leveraging assistive tools speeds up boilerplate creation and allows developer focus to shift to core application logic.

#9 about 3 min

Powering global commerce for the next generation of AI

Abstracting the complexity of financial systems enables emerging technology platforms to launch new monetization flows and scale globally.

Matching moments

1:20 min

Pivoting product strategy toward platform engineering

Alejandro Albuerne Alejandro Albuerne · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:13 min

Transitioning automated delivery pipelines into internal developer platform solutions

Lian Li · World Congress 2023

1:43 min

Summarizing the organizational benefits of platform engineering

Christian Strack · LIVE

2:31 min

Engineering scale and strategic pillars for internal operational efficiency

Kevin Kaiser Kevin Kaiser +1 · World Congress 2025

1:43 min

Platform engineering as the foundation for scaling AI tools

Julia Kordick Julia Kordick · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:38 min

Overview of the developer experience scope at PayPal

Erica Rider +1 · World Congress 2021

More from World Congress 2023

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development thumbnail
25:30
over 2 years ago

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development

Lorenzo Pieri

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen! thumbnail
8:52
over 2 years ago

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen!

Nathalie Gierth

Guided Memory Management: Rust's Ownership Model thumbnail
0:18
almost 3 years ago

Guided Memory Management: Rust's Ownership Model

Stefan Baumgartner

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice thumbnail
32:32
almost 3 years ago

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice

Clemens Hübner

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams thumbnail
30:07
almost 3 years ago

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams

Moritz Johner

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing thumbnail
25:18
almost 3 years ago

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing

Raphael Manke

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 3

Culture Doesn't Scale Itself: Leading Engineering Teams Through Hypergrowth and the AI Transition

Thanos Baskous

VP of Engineering and Co-founder of Cogent Security

Thanos Baskous
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:10–11:15

Outdoor Stage

Architecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery

Ranjan Parthasarathy

Founder, CPTO/CEO at AXIOMSTUDIO.AI

Ranjan Parthasarathy
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20

Tech Leaders Stage

Keeping Code Quality at AI Speed

Daksh Gupta, Arthur Hicken, Brian Mann

Daksh Gupta
Arthur Hicken
Brian Mann
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Mainstage

Building AI Products vs. Building With AI

Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici

Aparna Dhinakaran
Rukmini Reddy
Tamar Bercovici
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Stage 9

Designing APIs That Survive AI Agents at Scale

Phani Pendurthi

Mastercard, Principal Software Engineer

Phani Pendurthi
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20

Stage 6

Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships

Ussama Baggili

Principal, App Modernization & Development, Cloud Engineering & Data Analytics | Anthropic Alliance CTO

Ussama Baggili

Related videos

Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe thumbnail
54:11
Coffee With Developers • almost 3 years ago

Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe

David Singleton, Thomas Pamminger

Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive thumbnail
29:21
World Congress 2026 Europe • about 2 months ago

Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive

Agur Jõgi

Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform thumbnail
29:26
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform

Bastian Heilemann, Bruno Margula

Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready? thumbnail
21:19
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?

Linda, Maik

Coffee with Developers - Cassidy Williams - thumbnail
44:20
Coffee With Developers • about 2 years ago

Coffee with Developers - Cassidy Williams -

Cassidy Williams

Fireside Chat with Werner Vogels, VP & CTO, Amazon.com & Daniel Gebler, CTO at Picnic thumbnail
30:35
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

Fireside Chat with Werner Vogels, VP & CTO, Amazon.com & Daniel Gebler, CTO at Picnic

Daniel Gebler, Mike Butcher, Werner Vogels

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.