ex-Affirm, ex-founder

Elevatingcapital-tech

Elevating Developer Fintech — with top of funnel marketing and enterprise B2B portals

Previous Employers
beginner
Affirm
Galvanize
The Tech Interactive
Computer History Museum
UC San Diego
DevX & educational institutions
UC San Diego
Northwestern University
Olin College of Engineering
Hack Reactor
Deep Atlas
About

Elevating Developer Fintech

Fintech engineering manager with 6+ years at Affirm across Partner Engineering, merchant onboarding, and marketing products. Owned Merchant Portal and affirm.com for the 500,000+ merchant portfolio; scaled developer-support engineering from 1 to 9; owned technical operations and SLA reliability for Amazon ($10B+ GMV) and $100M+ merchant accounts. Ex-founder (Beginner Work Inc.). Targeting Engineering Manager / Senior EM roles in fintech (payments, platform/DevX, partner integrations).

10x your TAM

Capture your developer market

By addressing developers' entrepreneurial needs

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My work product
01/02

Marketing as Engineering Leadership

Treating top-of-funnel marketing as engineering leadership — the affirm.com revamp, where engineering, product, and marketing shared one conversion surface.

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Building Product as System Architecture

The merchant lifecycle work at Affirm: system architecture treated as the product, so the portal can keep earning trust as the surface grows.

Recruit enterprise developers

Retain enterprise customers

By showcasing your code strategy in a portal

github.com/tlindow
My work product
01/02

B2B Portals as Trust Stores

Merchant portals as trust stores. Velocity Labs gave the team a way to clear recurring incidents and keep the enterprise portal worthy of the developers and merchants on it.

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Building Teams as Raising Funds

Building the Affirm team the way you raise a round: intentional career growth, promotions, and a shared belief that the group knows how to grow the business.

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