Rahul Iyer is the head of engineering for the Terminal business unit at Stripe. In the past, he was head of the Production Platform organization at Airbnb, and part of the initial team that built and scaled Messenger at Facebook. While he "fell into" management during his time at Facebook, he has since fallen in love with it and considers himself a student of the craft. Over his management career, Rahul has scaled up teams multiple times, going from managing a small team of engineers to managing managers and managers of managers.

Outside of work, he spends most of his time chasing after his 2 year old son and is exploring the applicability of management techniques to parenting.