Calvin Correli
Founder & CEO at Simplero
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCalvin Correli is a veteran founder and CEO with 24 years of experience building mission-driven technology and coaching businesses, best known for creating Simplero, an integrated platform that helps coaches scale impact. He combines deep technical chops—contributing to notable open-source Ruby projects like ActiveMerchant and the mail library—with entrepreneurial product leadership across startups, consultancies, and wellness brands. Based in New York, he blends software engineering, payment gateway integration expertise, and test automation with a long-standing commitment to personal and spiritual growth. Calvin also launches and markets niche wellness ventures and programs, translating embodied practice into scalable offerings. His work sits at the intersection of pragmatic engineering and conscious culture-building, and he even positions himself as a future advisor on “conscious nation building.” That mix of hands-on technical contributions and holistic leadership makes him equally fluent with APIs, product strategy, and human transformation.
24 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Business and Life Coach Coaching education, Business and Life Coach Coaching education at Manning InspireB.Sc. Computer Science Information Science, B.Sc. Computer Science Information Science at Aarhus UniversityTestrupHighschool diploma Math Music, Highschool diploma Math Music at Svendborg Gymnasium
English, Danish
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
rspec10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
ruby10
activemerchant10
test-automation10
utf9
apidoc9
api9
base64-encoding8
blueimp6
file-upload6
actionmailer6
internationalization6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Nov 2008 - Sep 2013
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 & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Calvin primarily contributed to the Active Merchant library, focusing on implementing and testing payment gateway integrations. They added new methods for Quickpay, including `authorize`, `purchase`, `capture`, `void`, and `credit` functionalities. The user also wrote test cases for the Quickpay gateway, covering authorization, capture, and void operations, ensuring the correct functioning of the integration. They addressed bugs and updated the Quickpay integration to handle API v6 and v7.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
mikel/mail
Apr 2010 - Jun 2010
A Really Ruby Mail Library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Calvin focused on improving the `mail` library, specifically concerning the encoding and decoding of email content. Their contributions addressed issues related to the `quoted_printable` and `unstructured_field` encodings, aiming for better handling of special characters and more efficient processing. The user implemented several iterations, including base64 encoding, and ultimately refined the logic to correctly encode and decode strings while addressing whitespace and performance issues, demonstrated by test case adjustments.
mailsmtpmtaemailruby
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