Aurelia Specker is Solutions Architect at Stripe, where she is closely involved in the underlying technology and infrastructure shaping modern digital commerce. Her work centres on the growing complexity behind global payment flows, platform ecosystems and AI driven commerce, and how organisations are adapting their systems and operational architecture to keep pace with rapid technological change. As finance, technology and commercial infrastructure become increasingly interconnected, questions around scalability, resilience and system design are becoming more strategic at board level. Before joining Stripe, Aurelia spent more than four years at Twitter in Developer Relations and Partner Engineering roles during a period of significant transformation within the global technology landscape. Earlier in her career, she worked in research and insight roles, leading both qualitative and quantitative projects for government bodies, regulators and large organisations. That experience continues to shape her analytical perspective on technology, systems and organisational change.