Baton Daullxhiu
Staff Software Engineer
baton.daulixhiu@gmail.com | +1 650 237 9899 | linkedin.com/in/batond | New York, NY
Founding/scale-phase engineer with 8+ years building resilient, distributed systems at fintech, martech and infrastructure companies. Track record of growing high-performing teams and shipping mission-critical products from early stage through scale.
Experience
Engineering Lead
Mutiny
May 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 years 10 months | New York, NY
Led Analytics team, one of two core engineering pods. Drove strategic shift to Account Intelligence, establishing the company's new direction.
  • Managed and mentored team of 5 engineers; established product development and architectural standards
  • Executed company's strategic pivot by establishing Account Intelligence as the new home page and primary product entry point
  • Achieved rapid customer acquisition in new market segment by launching sales chrome extension that established strong product-market fit with enterprise sales teams
  • Enabled real-time analytics capabilities by architecting scalable data pipeline processing 10M+ events daily
Senior Software Engineer → Engineering Manager
Fast
May 2020 – May 2022 · 2 years | San Francisco, CA
Founding engineer who scaled from individual contributor to managing the payments engineering team. Architected platform handling millions in weekly transactions.
  • Designed and built end-to-end payments platform from first principles; owned Stripe integration (payment methods, onboarding, KYC, payment flows)
  • Grew and mentored team 2→8 engineers; established development standards enabling daily deployment cadence
  • Engineered PCI-compliant international payment infrastructure enabling product expansion across US, AU & NZ markets
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Feb 2016 – May 2020 · 4 years 3 months | San Francisco, CA
Built distributed systems and container orchestration infrastructure for enterprise security solutions.
  • Architected distributed microservice architecture in Kubernetes for container security solution; designed dynamic policy engine for enforcement at scale
  • Led multi-cloud orchestration system design; created intent-driven interfaces for cross-cloud deployment and policy management
Education
BEng Electronic & Electrical Engineering
University College London — First Class Honours
Thesis: Co-Learning Features and Transition Models in Reinforcement Learning
2011 – 2015 | London, UK
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, Go, TypeScript
Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes/Docker, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka
Specialties: Platform & Product Engineering, Distributed Systems, API Design