Building safe payment infrastructure for autonomous agents · AI Engineer / YouTube
Known for
Engineered Stripe's side of Instant Checkout and the Machine Payments Protocol.
Why chosen
He connects card issuing with checkouts no human clicks. He co-founded Bowery as CTO, then built at Beme and Frame.io before joining Stripe in November 2019, where he spent four years leading Issuing, the team behind Stripe's physical and virtual cards. In September 2025 he was engineering lead on the Agentic Commerce Protocol, developed with OpenAI to power Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, and in March 2026 he co-authored the Machine Payments Protocol with Tempo, now an IETF Internet-Draft. Cards first, then robots.
Building safe payment infrastructure for autonomous agents · AI Engineer / YouTube
Role
Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Lead for Agentic Commerce, Stripe
Signal
BuilderEngineering lead for agentic commerce at Stripe; co-author of the Payment HTTP authentication Internet-Draft (September 2026). Named as Stripe's engineering lead for agentic commerce on Stripe's ACP (Sept 2025) and MPP (Mar 2026) launch posts, and listed as a co-author of IETF draft-httpauth-payment-01.