Cade Rea
Software Engineer at Broadleaf Commerce
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCade Rea is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and refining back-end systems, currently contributing to Broadleaf Commerce from Austin, Texas. He specializes in Java and Spring-based eCommerce frameworks, focusing on payment services, metadata, search facets, and robust error handling. At Broadleaf he has shipped fixes and features that improved currency handling and enabled applying payments to quote orders—practical changes that reduce friction in complex commerce flows. A UT Austin alumnus, Cade combines deep domain knowledge in eCommerce with a pragmatic, bug-to-production mindset and a history of steady open-source contributions to a widely used commerce platform.
10 years of coding experience
The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
spring10
back-end-development10
java10
spring-boot10
database-design9
hibernate8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BroadleafCommerce/BroadleafCommerce
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Broadleaf Commerce CE - an eCommerce framework based on Java and Spring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 12 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Cade primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Broadleaf Commerce framework. Their commits focused on refining existing code, including adjusting category search facets, modifying metadata, and improving currency handling. The changes involved fixing bugs, improving error handling, and adding functionality to core components like the payment service. Furthermore, the user added code to allow applying payment to an order with the "Quote" status.
spring-bootecommercecommercespringecommerce-framework
cade-rea/BattleApp
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 13 branches, 1 issue in 6 years 8 months
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