Andrew Paliga
VP Of Product at myAbode
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Paliga is a product-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience building startups and leading product at Shopify and beyond, now serving as VP of Product at myAbode where he’s applying AI to eliminate real estate paperwork. He co-founded multiple ventures—most recently FirstList, acquired by myAbode—and has a track record of turning marketplace and payments problems into productized solutions. His background blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to the ActiveMerchant Ruby payment library integrating gateways like Realex and Mercury) with product strategy across retail, payments and domains. At Shopify he progressed from Product Manager to Product Lead, shipping platform features used by thousands of merchants. Trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Waterloo, he pairs systems thinking with pragmatic delivery and a knack for squeezing complexity out of regulated, transaction-heavy domains. Colleagues describe him as an operator who bridges code, QA, and go-to-market thinking to move ambitious products from prototype to acquisition.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
rspec10
payment-integration10
activemerchant10
payment-gateway10
api10
test-unit10
apidoc10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/offsite_payments
Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
A simple and unified API to handle dozens of different offsite payment pages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 50 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed significantly to adding and modifying payment gateway integrations within the `activemerchant/offsite_payments` repository. The primary focus was on integrating the Realex payment gateway, involving the creation of specific classes and methods for handling payment processing, notifications, and returns. Further contributions involved refactoring existing code and adapting to new API credentials.
apipaymentspayment-gatewayadyenpayment-processing
activemerchant/active_merchant
Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
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 & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:43 commits, 15 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the `active_merchant` library's support for the Mercury payment gateway. Their contributions involved adding and refining features related to track data, including implementing tests for remote and certification use cases. They also addressed code redundancies, fixed test errors, and added functionality for Canada-based transactions, showcasing a focus on both feature development and quality assurance within the library.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
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