Lexis Hanson

Engineering Manager @ Stripe

About

Experienced manager and engineer with over a decade of technology experience. From startups to Fortune 100's, I help engineering teams to deliver outcomes, impact, and excellence. Emphasis on empowerment, building with craft, customer obsession, and enabling engineers to become experts. I have worked in a variety of domains in software products from B2B, CRM, community platforms, and product adoption. My personal passions include entrepreneurship, AI, and investing (real estate, equities, startups).

Country

United States

City

New York City Metropolitan Area

Industry

Internet

Skill

Engineering Leadership, Team Management, Executive Team Alignment, Cross-team Collaboration, Team Building, Technical Leadership, Technology Roadmapping, Component Architecture, REST APIs, Webpack, Jest, GatsbyJS, Next.js, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, GraphQL, React Native, JavaScript, React.js, Web Applications

Experience

Engineering Manager

Stripe

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Building solutions and tooling to power Stripe Support experiences.

Investor

Hospitable.com

2021-12 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Angel Investor (acquired by Meta)

Limitless

2023 - 2025-12 · 3 yrs

Early investor in Limitless (formerly Rewind AI). Acquired by Meta in December 2025 to integrate into Reality Labs/AI wearables division.

Engineering Manager, New Verticals

Chief

2022-6 - 2024-8 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Led a dynamic group of engineering individual contributors, team leads, and managers in developing a digital community experience for executive women. With the scope and impact of a senior engineering manager, I drove strategic initiatives, executive alignment, and team scaling. • Incubated a 0-to-1 product by building and leading an effective engineering team and steering critical architecture decisions. Successfully influenced C-Suite leadership to align on our engineering vision, securing buy-in for a roadmap that balanced technical rigor and cross-functional alignment. • Partnered with the CTO and VP Eng to scale the engineering team from 15 to 35 developers, where I interviewed 100+ candidates in a year, focusing on finding the best talent suited for each of our teams. • Founded and led a Design System team, securing budget and hiring engineers to create a unified design system and component library, achieving a 9.7 NPS with product and tech teams. • Tech stack: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, NodeJS, AWS, PostgreSQL, Datadog, React Native.

Lead Software Engineer, Front-End

Apple

2021-10 - 2022-6 · 9 mos

Cupertino, California, United States

• Managed a team of 5 to develop a Partner Reseller CRM system with a focus on front-end development. • Unified multiple internal React component libraries, which each had different implementations and style guidelines, into a singular designsystem for our organization. • Built client platform tooling to enhance teams patterns, worked with our org of 30+ engineers to establish common configurations for linter and prettier rules. • Improved app performance by 30% by applying various build tooling and web performance optimizations. • Achieved 70% test coverage in our flagship app within 3 months (from 0%).