Brittany Hayes
Software Engineer at Spreedly
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrittany Hayes is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and integrating complex services, currently contributing at Spreedly from the Raleigh-Durham area. She has a strong Ruby/Rails background from multiple roles at Automated Insights, where she connected natural language generation pipelines to client-facing platforms and BI tools and moved between data science and engineering responsibilities. Her open-source work includes contributions to the well-known Active Merchant payment library, where she resolved gateway edge cases and extended payment method support—evidence of deep familiarity with payment integrations and transactional logic. Trained in Information Science (MLIS) at UNC Chapel Hill, she brings a user-centered, data-informed perspective to engineering problems and an ability to translate messy customer data into production-ready features.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Information Science, Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
payment-integration10
activemerchant10
payment-gateway10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
May 2019 - Jul 2021
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:24 reviews, 63 commits, 126 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brittany primarily contributed to the `activemerchant/active_merchant` repository by addressing payment gateway integration issues, including fixing address validation errors and implementing support for new payment methods. Their work involved modifying the core payment processing logic and testing the integrations. They demonstrated the ability to work with various payment gateways and handle specific edge cases within each gateway.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
britth/active_merchant
May 2019 - Jul 2021
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.
Contributions:225 pushes, 105 branches in 2 years 2 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
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