Deedee Lavinder
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDeeDee Lavinder is a Director of Engineering based in North Carolina with 11 years of experience building and leading backend teams. She remains hands-on with Ruby payment systems, contributing notable integrations and reliability improvements to Shopify’s widely used activemerchant library—adding support for many gateways, improving tokenization and address parsing, and maintaining test suites and error handling. Her expertise centers on making payment integrations robust and maintainable, bridging product needs with pragmatic refactors that reduce operational risk. As a leader, she combines strategic engineering management with direct open-source impact on critical payment infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), International Agricultural Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), International Agricultural Development at University of California, DavisRails Engineering, Rails Engineering at The Iron Yard
English, Haitian Creole, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
ruby10
paymentgateway10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
testing10
api9
api-doc9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 63 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Deedee primarily contributed to the `activemerchant/active_merchant` repository by implementing payment gateway integrations, specifically for PayU Latam, Braintree, WePay, Barclaycard Smartpay, Payeezy, Cyber Source, Checkout V2, Global Collect, Safe Charge, Orbital, Borgun, Paymentez, WorldPay, Adyen, and Mercado Pago. The code changes included adding mandatory fields, handling tokenization, and refactoring address parsing. Their contributions also involved test suite maintenance and error handling improvements.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
deedeelavinder/deedeelavinder.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:64 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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