Adam Becevello
Staff Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Becevello is a Staff Developer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, reliable systems and native mobile apps from Ottawa. At Shopify he led engineering for Point of Sale, shipping both backend Rails services and iOS features in Swift that handled EMV payments, background sync, and regulatory compliance for millions of merchants. He also drove distributed load testing work to surface performance regressions and improve checkout throughput, blending hands-on coding with platform-level tooling. An active contributor to the popular Active Merchant project, he improved Stripe and Authorize.Net integrations to better map decline/error codes and support contactless and retail device flows. Comfortable moving between Objective-C/Swift and Ruby on Rails, he has a track record of reducing technical debt and delivering secure payment integrations. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he pairs deep payments domain knowledge with a knack for making developer-facing systems easier to use.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at Carleton University
Github Skills (9)
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
authorizenet10
billing-system10
stripe10
authorization10
ruby10
testing9
error-handling9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
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:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Stripe and Authorize.Net payment gateways within the Active Merchant library. Their work involved mapping advanced decline codes, integrating device type information for retail transactions, handling contactless payment methods, and mapping error codes. These changes enhanced the functionality and integration of these payment gateways, improving the library's ability to process payments accurately and handle various payment scenarios.
activemerchantrubyshopify
abecevello/ARBCollectionViewCascadeLayout
Apr 2013 - Jan 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push in 5 years 9 months
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