Allie Snook
Principal Software Test Engineer at Stryker
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAllie Snook is a Principal Software Test Engineer with 12+ years building robust embedded and cloud-connected systems, now leading test systems and verification for emergency medical devices at Stryker. Previously a staff engineering leader at Automattic, Allie architected and shipped large-scale payments and commerce platforms—integrating Stripe, Amazon, and other gateways—and led teams that built WooCommerce Payments and shipping SaaS products. Their background spans deep embedded and RF systems through complex server and mobile integrations, with early career work on satellite and ultrasound software and tooling. An active open-source contributor, Allie has improved payment gateway handling in the widely used WooCommerce Stripe plugin and enhanced Jetpack REST APIs for role and analytics integrations. Comfortable across C/C++, C#, PHP, JavaScript and hardware-in-the-loop testing, they combine rigorous systems verification practices with product-minded engineering leadership. Based in Seattle and openly queer, Allie brings a rare blend of medical-device verification discipline and commerce-scale backend experience.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at Virginia TechMaster of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Washington Bothell
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Github Skills (19)
woocommerce10
apidoc10
wordpress10
payment-gateway10
php10
api10
gateway10
wordpress-plugin10
rest-api10
stripe-api10
google-analytics9
javascript7
xpath6
wpf6
treeview6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-stripe
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
The official Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 73 reviews, 54 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Allie primarily focused on enhancing the WooCommerce Stripe payment gateway. Their work included modifying code to incorporate full name data for Stripe customers, indicating a focus on improving customer data handling. They also touched on settings related to different payment methods (SEPA, Sofort, iDEAL, etc.) and updated the site URL in payment requests, demonstrating a solid understanding of the payment gateway's architecture and various payment integrations. Furthermore, the user made changes to the statement descriptor, focusing on sanitizing it to meet Stripe's requirements.
stripe-paymentswoocommercetransact
Automattic/jetpack
Sep 2013 - Mar 2018
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Allie contributed to the REST API endpoints, adding functionality for listing site roles and including roles in user data. They implemented changes to support avatar sizes and handle potential errors in API definitions. Furthermore, the user made modifications related to WooCommerce integration within the Google Analytics module, demonstrating expertise in integrating with external services and enhancing analytical tracking capabilities. They also performed some general code cleanup and maintenance tasks.
jetpacksecuritywordpressphpplugin
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